Still I Rise By Maya Angelou Essay

Tony Marrero, a survivor of the Orland shooting in June of 2016. A guy who just wanted to have a nice time out with his boyfriend and friends at a club turned into one of the most terrifying nights ever. This survivor listened to one of Katy Perry song Rise from the day he was sent to the hospital till now to overcome this huge obstacle in life and reform a new life. Listening to this song has helped him move on and be such an inspiration to himself and many others that he does not know. Finding yourself in this situation is crucial because it can either make or break you in continuing on in life. “Victory is in my veins. I know it, I know it. And I will not negotiate. Il fight it, I’ll fight it. I will transform” (Perry pg.1). Listening

Maya Angelou is one amazing civil rights activist with prolific amount of short stories and poems she has written from personal experience and perspective. In Maya Angelou poem Still I Rise she is given us a piece of her perspective in slavery and how she overcame those cruel days. Slavery was a huge process of the struggle in life and how little to no freedom they had but how brave they were in overcoming it and had enough courage to move on from that life after finally being free. Maya starts off her poem with “You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies” (Angelou pg.1). Just like Katy Perry starts off her song in Rise “Oh, you will see me thrive. Can’t write my story” (Perry pg.1). These two authors think so much alike from being strained away from the lies and archetypes. Both know the real truth of what they’re life is really like and not just another fairytale blinding us with lies. As a slave Maya character expresses herself angry because she knows it takes courage to tell the truth about slavery. Having all those memories and seeing family being torn apart it take bravery to talk to someone about this and not break down. Americans are blinded by the truth because in or history books it tells us that the blacks deserved to be slaves since they are a different color skin as all the white people. In all honesty, we are all the same, brothers

Bowed head and lowered my eyes?” (Angelou pg.1). White folks wanted to break her so bad and wanted to see her cry, depressed and possibly suicidal. Slavery was something that all the black race had to go through and had a struggling life growing up. They didn’t have the privilege to go to school and learn. They didn’t have the privilege of eating and sleeping in beautiful home. It took years to feel courageous enough to live their lives how they wanted to and please themselves as much as they did for their owners. “And the vultures all start circling. They’re whispering, ‘you’re out of time.’” (Perry pg.1). These two quotes are fairly similar to one another when it comes to the struggle of life. When you see no hope at all, all you hear are temptation remarks. If you should just quit and end your life. There will always be a struggle in life for everyone, whether its racially, mentally, physically, educationally and just because it happens. It’s life, things happen, when we’re too busy planning life takes it away. There’s always that voice in your head telling you to give up but just like these two stories, you will