Posted by picklegoddess83 at 141.238.103.104 on September 04, 2003 at 16:16:14:
In Reply to: Re: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou posted by BrianWebber on September 04, 2003 at 16:13:50:
: That's fucking beautiful. Your professor needs to get that bug out of
his ass.
: : 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 hatefullness,
: : 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 wonderously clear
: : I rise
: : Bringing the gifts that my ancestor's gave,
: : I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
: : I rise
: : I rise
: : I rise.