STILL I RISE

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DATE: Aug. 18, 2016, 7:33 a.m.

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  1. You may write me down in history
  2. With your bitter, twisted lies,
  3. You may trod me in the very dirt
  4. But still, like dust, I'll rise.
  6. Does my sassiness upset you?
  7. Why are you beset with gloom?
  8. 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
  9. Pumping in my living room.
  11. Just like moons and like suns,
  12. With the certainty of tides,
  13. Just like hopes springing high,
  14. Still I'll rise.
  16. Did you want to see me broken?
  17. Bowed head and lowered eyes?
  18. Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
  19. Weakened by my soulful cries.
  21. Does my haughtiness offend you?
  22. Don't you take it awful hard
  23. 'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
  24. Diggin' in my own back yard.
  26. You may shoot me with your words,
  27. You may cut me with your eyes,
  28. You may kill me with your hatefulness,
  29. But still, like air, I'll rise.
  31. Does my sexiness upset you?
  32. Does it come as a surprise
  33. That I dance like I've got diamonds
  34. At the meeting of my thighs?
  36. Out of the huts of history's shame
  37. I rise
  38. Up from a past that's rooted in pain
  39. I rise
  40. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
  41. Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
  42. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
  43. I rise
  44. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
  45. I rise
  46. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
  47. I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
  48. I rise
  49. I rise
  50. I rise.
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