# And Still I Rise

- Author: [Maya Angelou](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise

## Quotes

> Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
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> I rise
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> Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
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> I rise
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> Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
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> I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
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> I rise
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> I rise
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> I rise.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/leaving-behind-nights.md)

> Does my sexiness upset you?
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> Does it come as a surprise
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> That I dance like I've got diamonds
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> At the meeting of my thighs?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/does-my-sexiness.md)

> You may shoot me with your words,
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> You may cut me with your eyes,
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> You may kill me with your hatefulness,
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> But still, like air, I'll rise.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/you-may-shoot.md)

> You were a precious pearl
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> How I loved to see you shine,
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> You were the perfect girl.
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> And you were mine.
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> For a time.
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> For a time.
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> Just for a time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/you-were-a-precious.md)

> I went to sleep last night
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> And I arose with the dawn,
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> I know that there are others
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> Who're still sleeping on,
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> They've gone away,
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> You've let me stay,
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> I want to thank You.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/i-went-to-sleep.md)

> You may write me down in history
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> With your bitter, twisted lies,
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> You may trod me in the very dirt
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> But still, like dust, I'll rise.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/you-may-write.md)

> Out of the huts of history's shame
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> I rise
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> Up from a past that's rooted in pain
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> I rise
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> I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
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> Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maya-angelou/and-still-i-rise/out-of-the.md)