{"id":4523,"date":"2014-05-28T19:52:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2014-05-28T19:53:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:53:49","slug":"she-will-always-rise-remembering-maya-angelou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2014\/05\/she-will-always-rise-remembering-maya-angelou\/","title":{"rendered":"She Will Always Rise: Remembering Maya Angelou"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maya-Angelou-Learning-Quotes-Wallpaper\"<\/a>Remembering Maya Angelou, the only tribute possible is through her own words:<\/p>\n

Still I Rise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You may write me down in history
\nWith your bitter, twisted lies,
\nYou may tread me in the very dirt
\nBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Does my sassiness upset you?<\/em>
\n Why are you beset with gloom?<\/em>
\n ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells<\/em>
\n Pumping in my living room.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just like moons and like suns,<\/em>
\n With the certainty of tides,<\/em>
\n Just like hopes springing high,<\/em>
\n Still I’ll rise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you want to see me broken?<\/em>
\n Bowed head and lowered eyes?<\/em>
\n Shoulders falling down like teardrops.<\/em>
\n Weakened by my soulful cries.<\/em><\/p>\n

Does my haughtiness offend you?<\/em>
\n Don’t you take it awful hard<\/em>
\n ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines<\/em>
\n Diggin’ in my own back yard.<\/em><\/p>\n

You may shoot me with your words,<\/em>
\n You may cut me with your eyes,<\/em>
\n You may kill me with your hatefulness,<\/em>
\n But still, like air, I’ll rise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Does my sexiness upset you?<\/em>
\n Does it come as a surprise<\/em>
\n That I dance like I’ve got diamonds<\/em>
\n At the meeting of my thighs?<\/em><\/p>\n

Out of the huts of history’s shame<\/em>
\n I rise<\/em>
\n Up from a past that’s rooted in pain<\/em>
\n I rise<\/em>
\n I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,<\/em>
\n Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<\/em>
\n Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<\/em>
\n I rise<\/em>
\n Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear<\/em>
\n I rise<\/em>
\n Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<\/em>
\n I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<\/em>
\n I rise<\/em>
\n I rise<\/em>
\n I rise.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

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Maya Angelou’s inspiration lives on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1373],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maya-angelou"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}