[stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

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> Maya Angelou
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Just like moons and like suns,
> With the certainty of tides,
> Just like hopes springing high,
> Still I’ll rise.
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> Did you want to see me broken?
> Bowed head and lowered eyes?
> Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
> Weakened by my soulful cries?
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> 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 backyard.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. She was an 
> author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen 
> producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. In 1993, 
> Angelou wrote and delivered a poem, “On The Pulse of the Morning,” at the 
> inauguration for President Bill Clinton at his request. In 2000, she 
> received the National Medal of Arts, and was awarded the Presidential 
> Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2010. Angelou died on May 
> 28, 2014, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where she had served as 
> Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University since 
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