[Vision2020] Still I Rise

[Tom Hansen]

Recited by Maya Angelou (Thanks, Rose).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qviM_GnJbOM

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.net

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
- Roy E. Stolworthy

> On Jan 9, 2022, at 5:01 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Still I Rise
>  
> by 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?
> 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.
> 
> ————————————————
> 
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
> 
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.net
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> “A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”
> - Roy E. Stolworthy
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