Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, Iâll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
âCause I walk like Iâve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
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?
Donât you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like Iâve got gold mines
Digginâ 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, Iâll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like Iâve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of historyâs shame
Up from a past thatâs rooted in pain
Iâm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
Into a daybreak thatâs wondrously clear
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
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