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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.
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.
sonet 3
just like moons and like suns
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
sonet 4
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.