And Still I Rise

by Dr Maya Angelou

If they want to learn how to live life right, they ought to study me on Saturday night.

My life ain’t heaven but it sure ain’t hell. I’m not on top but I call it swell if I’m able to work and get paid right and have the luck to be Black on a Saturday night.

keloid,

ominous

cicatrix,

brash

insolent

delectation

Your vaulted boudoirs,

capriciously,

Tired now of pedestal existence

fear of flying And vertigo, you descend