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Vernellia's Note: My daily life, like every black
woman, is one of insults, small almost insignificant - larger mean
spirited ones. So I endure white colleagues who say in bewilderment, " I
wouldn't stay anywhere I wasn't wanted." Of course, as
privileged white men, they can assume that moving to somewhere else will
cure their problem. I endure student evaluations that say - "Take
her out and kill her . . and put her out her misery." OR that say that
I am " a racist man-hater" which I interpret to be the politically correct
way of saying - Nigger-Bitch.
Still I Rise!! |
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou |
Maya Angelou
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- Picture courtesy of
Maya
Angelou Dedication page
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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.
- 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 backyard.
- 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
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