<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div><div class="KonaBody"><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; ">Still I Rise</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">You may write me down in history</span><br></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; ">With your bitter, twisted lies,<br>You may tread me in the very dirt<br>But still, like dust, I'll rise.<br><br>Does my sassiness upset you? <br>Why are you beset with gloom? <br>'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells<br>Pumping in my living room.<br><br>Just like moons and like suns,<br>With the certainty of tides,<br>Just like hopes springing high,<br>Still I'll rise.<br><br>Did you want to see me broken? <br>Bowed head and lowered eyes? <br>Shoulders falling down like teardrops.<br>Weakened by my soulful cries.<br><br>Does my haughtiness offend you? <br>Don't you take it awful hard<br>'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines<br>Diggin' in my own back yard.<br><br>You may shoot me with your words,<br>You may cut me with your eyes,<br>You may kill me with your hatefulness,<br>But still, like air, I'll rise.<br><br>Does my sexiness upset you? <br>Does it come as a surprise<br>That I dance like I've got diamonds<br>At the meeting of my thighs? <br><br>Out of the huts of history's shame<br>I rise<br>Up from a past that's rooted in pain<br>I rise<br>I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,<br>Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<br>Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<br>I rise<br>Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear<br>I rise<br>Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<br>I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<br>I rise<br>I rise<br>I rise. <br></p></div><div class="poet" itemprop="author" style="margin-top: 22px; 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