" I RISE " Church blackboard sign<br />
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"Out of the hut of history's shame  ... I RISE<br />
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Up from a past That's rooted in pain ...  I RISE<br />
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I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelting I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear ... I RISE<br />
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Into a daybreadk that's wondrousky clear ... I RISE<br />
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Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave ...  I RISE.  I RISE. I RISE