Poems&Quotes

You used to light up my day, now your memory is dark as night. I don’t want to say what I used to like about you, and I really shouldn’t say what I disliked. I valued myself just a bit more. A pat on the back. A giant step forward. Im not a shame, Im not to blame I look back at this moment Its far much more ive gained. Knowledge Self-respect Confidence Wit something this world doesn’t trains. But I was trained to see it. Right now, I’m okay the sun is still shining as if we didn’t go our separate ways hard to say but you had to have it you way

"You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread 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 back yard. 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. "

"Centered on the worlds stage, she sings to her loves and beloveds, to her foes and detractors: However I am perceived and deceived, however my ignorance and conceits, lay aside your fears that I will be undone, for I shall not be moved."

"You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all there. Everything each influences us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

"There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeeded in explaining what we know."

"Men themselves, have wondered what they see in me. They try so much but they can't touch my inner mystery. It's the arch in my back, the sun of my smile, the ride of my breasts, the grace of my smile. I'm a woman. Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman. That's me."

"I know that when I pray something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard."

"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."