@reevasteenkampfoundation Still I Rise⠀ 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.⠀ ⠀ #bluebackpurple #takebackblueblackpurple #16daysofactivism #reevasteenkamp #stopabuse #endgenderbasedviolence #empowerwomen #protectourgirls

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