<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Still I Rise</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">by Maya Angelou</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You may write me down in history</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With your bitter, twisted lies,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You may trod me in the very dirt</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But still, like dust, I'll rise.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Does my sassiness upset you?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why are you beset with gloom?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pumping in my living room.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Just like moons and like suns,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With the certainty of tides,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Just like hopes springing high,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Still I'll rise.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Did you want to see me broken?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bowed head and lowered eyes?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Shoulders falling down like teardrops,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Weakened by my soulful cries?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Does my haughtiness offend you?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Don't you take it awful hard</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Diggin’ in my own backyard.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You may shoot me with your words,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You may cut me with your eyes,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You may kill me with your hatefulness,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But still, like air, I’ll rise.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Does my sexiness upset you?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Does it come as a surprise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That I dance like I've got diamonds</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At the meeting of my thighs?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Out of the huts of history’s shame</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Up from a past that’s rooted in pain</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Leaving behind nights of terror and fear</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I am the dream and the hope of the slave.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: -12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I rise.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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