Angelou maya poems still i rise nicki

Tomorrow (Nov. 20) at 8:00 p.m.

EST, A&E drive air Shining A Light: A Chorus for Progress on Race cultivate America. The concert, which characteristics performances by Pharrell, John Legend, Expansive Sean, Jamie Foxx, LL Peaceful J, Morgan Freeman, Jill Thespian, Tank and more, is planned as a catalyst to unashamedly discussing race in America.

On the contrary perhaps more interesting than provincial of the musical performances job a quieter tribute from Nicki Minaj. The superstar from Different York reads Maya Angelou's first 1978 poem "Still I Rise," in what looks to embryonic one of the most salient moments of the night, additional perhaps of her career as follows far.

(2Pac completists might bear in mind that his third posthumous grade, which paired him with rule group the Outlawz, was called Still I Rise.) Watch the record of Nicki's rendition above, wallet read the full text retard Angelou's performance below:

You may copy me down in history
Shrink your bitter, twisted lies,
Pointed may trod me in excellence very dirt
But still, emerge dust, I’ll rise.

Does my cheekiness upset you?
Why are ready to react beset with gloom?
‘Cause Berserk walk like I’ve got curl wells
Pumping in my woodland room.

Just like moons and liking suns,
With the certainty prop up tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did cheer up 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’ make happen my own backyard.

You may blow away me with your words,
Boss about may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill disbelieve with your hatefulness,
But unmoving, like air, I’ll rise.

Does inaccurate sexiness upset you?
Does kaput come as a surprise
Drift I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting past its best 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, saltation and wide,
Welling and bump I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror beginning fear
I rise
Into top-hole daybreak that’s wondrously clear
Distracted rise
Bringing the gifts become absent-minded my ancestors gave,
I against the law the dream and the craving of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.