https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3 Made with big dreams en-us 2018-03-02 19:39:15 UTC 2018-03-13 06:38:07 UTC hello@padlet.com dli0704 https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/237585397 Telling adults to take the point of view of a child.]]> 2018-03-02 19:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/237585397 dli0704 https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/237587958 The author tells of her experience as being defined by her body and looks rather than her soul and mind.]]> 2018-03-02 19:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/237587958 dli0704 https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/238322016 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.

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 backyard.

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.

About respecting herself and making sure nothing nothing defeats her confidence.]]> 2018-03-05 19:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/238322016 dli0704 https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/238323098 Describes having to choose between two paths. Leaving one for another day.]]> 2018-03-05 19:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/238323098 dli0704 https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/238324625 Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?  
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp 
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Tells of the effects of time on our goals that we have yet to reach.]]> 2018-03-05 19:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dli0704/ixc084sce1q3/wish/238324625