Still I Rise

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DATE: May 16, 2013, 10:12 p.m.

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