Angelou’s “Still I Rise” is the right poem to celebrate Kamala Harris
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Kamala Harris’s Moment to Rise
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Simone Biles Rises
Gymnast GOAT Biles has a tattoo of a line from Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” to inspire her.
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What To Make of a Diminished Biles
For Simone Biles’s fall from Olympic heights, two Robert Frost poems and Le Guin’s Earthsea Tetralogy bring some needed perspective.
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