Leaving behind nights of terror and fear / I rise / Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear / I rise
- Source
- Still I Rise, 1978
- Written
- 1978
About this quotation
These lines come near the end of “Still I Rise”, in the 1978 collection And Still I Rise. The poem answers contempt with refusal, and here the speaker steps out of a history of suffering into the morning.