purposes to create them always inferior, the truth was twisted by their lies, they wrote the lies in their history.
2. Still I Rise
Still I Rise you may write me down in history
1 With your bitter twisted lies
You may trod me in the very dirt But Still, like dust, Ill rise
Does my sassiness upset you ?
5 Why are you beset with gloom
Cause I walk like Ive got oil wells Pumping in my living room
Just like moon and like the suns
10 With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing highs, Still Ill rise
Did you want see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes ? 15
Shoulder 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 Ive got gold mines
20 Diggin in my own back yard
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, Ill Rise
25 Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise That I dance like Ive got diamonds
At the meeting of my tight Out of huts of historys shame
30 I rise
Up from a past that rooted in pain
I rise Im black ocean, leaping and wide
Welling and swelling I bear in the title 35
Leaving behind night of terror and fear I rise
Into a day break thats wondrously clear
1 rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestor gave
40 I am the dream and the hope of the slave
I rise I rise
I rise
3. Equality
“Equality” taken from the book The Complete Collected Poems of Maya
Angelou published by Random House, Inc. New York: 1994. This poem divided into two stanzas and twenty nine lines. Angelou used figurative imagery, visual
imagery auditory imagery and metaphor. In this poem, Angelou told about, the African American becomes invisible
human. The speaker said the white always saw him in dimly which never shine. Even, he stood in front of his eyes. The whites saw them dimly or in other mean
the whites looked they down as human. The African American tried to let people saw how that he was no different
from them. The whites saw him as a human who had loose morals. Society tries not to see him or hear him. he speaks his message loudly and clearly and his
rhythm was never changes. But, society stood deaf and blind to anything he said or did.
3. Equality
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