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9 Cards in this Set
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sonet 1
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. |
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sonet 2
does my sassiness upset you..... |
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. |
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sonet 3
just like moons and like suns |
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. |
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sonet 4
Did you want to see me broken? |
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries |
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sonet 5
Does my haughtiness offend you? |
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. |
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sonet 6
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. |
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sonet 7
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? |
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sonet 8
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. |
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sonet 9
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear.... |
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. |
