I Rise Maya Angelou Quotes

Why are you beset with gloom? Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, 33 i'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, 34 welling and swelling i bear in the tide.

33 i'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, 34 welling and swelling i bear in the tide. “be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.” “a woman’s heart should be so hidden in god that a man has to seek him just to find her.” “there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.” “the first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” She will rise higher and higher like the tides.

Maya angelou 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.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, i rise. Like quote recommend to friends friends who liked this quote to see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up! ‘still i rise’ is her declaration that she, for one, would not allow the hatefulness of society to determine her own success. The poem, ‘still i rise,’ is not only a proclamation of her own determination to rise above society but was also a call to others to live above the society in which they were brought up.