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Accountable wrote: I think this is appropriate here.



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.




It is. And thank you, Acc.

buttercup wrote: weeder & theia i cant believe you girls would think curly hair is horrible, its the sexiest tool a woman has, men love it

lets hear it for curls


You're right, Buttercup. We are who we are and what we have is just fine....

three cheers for curls (well, and for straight hair too)

buttercup wrote: weeder & theia i cant believe you girls would think curly hair is horrible, its the sexiest tool a woman has, men love it



lets hear it for curls




Heres the kicker butter

curlies want to be straighties

and straighties want to be curlies

So whats really the question here ?

Chew on that for awhile..................

I want the curler

But you want relaxer

I use a razor

But you like to wax 'er

Curler, relaxer. razor, waxer.

Let's call the whole thing bald!

Accountable, That poem is fantastic and Maya Andelou is one of my role models.

I am going to print it.

Nomad... Hpw did you know about the curly... straight .. longing syndrome? It is always true. Buttercup.. We really do love our hair. And they dont really upset us for long.

weeder wrote: Accountable, That poem is fantastic and Maya Andelou is one of my role models.

I am going to print it.



Nomad... Hpw did you know about the curly... straight .. longing syndrome? It is always true. Buttercup.. We really do love our hair. And they dont really upset us for long.




Ive met a couple of girls along the way.