Maya Angelou- "Still I Rise"

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Submitted by webmaster on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 06:33

Maya Angelou Still I Rise

Posted by mkimimi
March 17, 2007

"This video was made for a project in 2007. Ratings and comments are appreciated. Enjoy!...Maya is also the author of such books as Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Video Description:
A montage of historical photographs of African American history is shown to Maya Angelou's recitation of her poem "Still I Rise".

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webmaster
Tue, 2 February, 2010 - 07:00

STILL I RISE
by Maya Angelo (1978)
 

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 miraculously 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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