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STILL I
Rise Written by:
Maya Angelou
(1976)
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) is a poet,
author, speaker and civil rights activist. She
has led a turbulent life which has seen her
work as a nightclub dancer, journalist, civil
rights activist, author, and university
professor. She is seen as a respected
defender of black culture in America and
was invited to read a poem ‘On the Pulse of
the Morning’ at Bill Clinton’s presidential
Maya Angelou inauguration in 1993.
(1928 – 2014)
 HISTORY BEHIND THE
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Author)
Still I rise was originally published in the 1978 collection.
• It is one of the most famous and widely read poems from
this collection by Maya Angelou.
• "Still I Rise" was written to address the discrimination that
Black people face due to systematic racism in the United
States.
• Angelou also had a traumatizing childhood which included
her own personal experience with racial discrimination and
sexual abuse.
• Angelou wrote this poem in the late 1970s, during the Post-
Civil Rights Movement Era.
STILL I
Rise Written 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.
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 REFERENCES
● Angelou, M. (n.d.). Still I Rise by Maya Angelou - Poems. Academy of American Poets.
Retrieved March 19, 2023, from https://poets.org/poem/still-i-rise

● Erivo, C. (2014, September 23). Still I Rise (Official Lyric Video) - Caged Bird Songs.
YouTube. Retrieved March 19, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UFMB4i1AJo

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