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“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, / I am the dream and the hope of the slave. / I rise / I rise / I rise.” In a BBC video montage, Wimbledon champion Serena Williams reads empowering lines from Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” from her collection And Still I Rise (Random House, 1978).
Tags: Poetry | Random House | Maya Angelou | And Still I Rise | 1978 | Serena Williams