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7.26.2007
CAN'T HOLD ME DOWN... 'COZ I RISE...
| One of the best contemporary female poets--Maya Angelou, has the words that are in my heart right now. She wrote the famous "Phenomenal Woman" after all! For that and her entire body of feisty meaningful work, she has earned the respect of millions of women the world over, myself and Miss Winfrey included. In this one, she imbibes a self-faith crucial in overcoming all the challenges the world throws along the way... No matter how heavy things get, we must always find a way to still rise. It's all in the attitude! Still I Rise
Maya Angelou | | | | | You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise. | | *** spat out from the mind of Rachelle @ 6:15 PM
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