Among Maya Angelou’s most famous quotes are the lines from her poem “Still I Rise,” which begins “You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies, / You may trod me in the very dirt /But still, like dust, I’ll rise.” The poem appears in her 1978 poetry collection And Still I Rise and is considered a powerful celebration of the resilience of African American women.
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