![]() 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. Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise is a co-production of The People’s Poet Media Group, LLC, THIRTEEN’s American Masters for WNET, and ITVS in association with Artemis Rising. It was published during one of the most productive. 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. And Still I Rise is author Maya Angelous third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. BLOCK: Five days ago, Angelou tweeted one last time. Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. ![]() Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright. Maya Angelou reading her poem 'Still I Rise.' The author's gift with words was apparent, even in less than 140 characters. 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.ĭoes my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Fisher has observed, not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. This oppressor, addressed throughout as you. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and freshand, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.ĭid you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries?ĭoes 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. Still I Rise presents the bold defiance of the speaker, implied to be a black woman, in the face of oppression. 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.ĭoes my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, BBC One Imagine (Winter 2017 ) Documentary portrait of the trail-blazing activist, poet and writer Maya Angelou.
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