Still I Rise (240 Words: A+)

Maya Angelou

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?
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:51 PM
Comment [1]: You can say anu uo
anything against me, but I will not take youi
comment as a tiuth.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:52 PM
Comment [2]: No mattei what happens, I
will lift myself up anu keep going.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:53 PM
Comment [3]: I'm confiuent because I
have gieat qualities.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:54 PM
Comment [4]: I have iisen fiom my past
anu will be piouuctive foi the futuie.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:55 PM
Comment [5]: I'm leaining to be
successful by stiiving foi the best.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:57 PM
Comment [6]: Angela wants people to
ielate to these lines because theie will
always be oppiessois. Theie aie people that
want to see us bioken uown anu lifeless.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 10:59 PM
Comment [7]: She is confiuent in heiself
because she knows hei innei peisonality.
Sometimes othei people will make us feel
bau because they know that we have
potential to go fai.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 11:00 PM
Comment [8]: No mattei how haiu you
tiy to shoot me uown; once I stanu up, I will
iise.
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.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 11:01 PM
Comment [9]: I feel poweiful because
theie is something in me that you want. You
aie jealous because I can uo things that you
can't.
Luis Lobos 12/20/13 11:03 PM
Comment [10]: Ny past is filleu with a
ciuel anu uaik histoiy. Nany hoiiible events
occuiieu to my people, but that has not
changeu me. I will be the uiffeience
eveiywheie I go. I will iise above any high
tiues anu I will use my talent to accomplish
gieat things.