SherQan

"Still I Rise" %D%A%D%AYou may write me down in history %D%AWith your bitter, twisted lies, %D%AYou may trod me in the very dirt %D?ut still, like dust, I'll rise %D?oes my sassiness upset you? %D%AWhy are you beset with gloom? %D?ause I walk like I have got oil well %D%Apumping my living room. %D%AJust like moons and like suns, %D%AWith the certainty of fides, %D%AJust like hopes springing high, %D%AStill I Rise Did you want to see me broken? %D?owed head and lowered eyes? %D%AShoulders falling down like teardrops %D%AWeakened by my soulful cries. %D?oes my haughtiness offend you? %D?on't you take it awful hand. %D?ause I laugh like I've got gold wines. %D?igging in my own backyard. %D%AYou may shot me with your words, %D%AYou may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hate fulness, %D?ut still, like air, I'll rise %D?oes my sexiness upset you? %D?oes it come as a surprise? %D%AThat I dance like I've got diamonds %D?t the meetings of my thighs? %D%AOut of the huts of history shame I rise up from a past that's rooted in pain %D%AI rise %D%AI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, %D%AWelling and swelling I bear in the tide %D%ALeaving behind nights of terror and fear %D%AI rise %D%AInto a daybreak that's wondrously clear %D%AI rise %D?ringing .."window.status=''; return true;"the gifts '; return true;" ..="window.status=''; return true;"the gifts that my ancestors gave, %D%AI am the dream and the hope of the slave %D%AI rise %D%AI rise %D%AI rise %D%A%D%A TEETH ROCK IS WHO I"AM!!!%A ....