TODAY! #BREAKTHEBIAS - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - MEET SOME OF OPERATION DIVERSITY'S POWERFUL WOMEN WHOM I AM PROUD TO CALL MY COLLEAGUES & FRIENDS

TODAY! #BREAKTHEBIAS - INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - MEET SOME OF OPERATION DIVERSITY'S POWERFUL WOMEN WHOM I AM PROUD TO CALL MY COLLEAGUES & FRIENDS ????.. AND BELOW IS A LITTLE SOMETHING I AM SURE YOU WILL RESONATE WITH.. #TEAMOD #ODFAMILY

STILL, I RISE BY MAYA ANGELOU

You may write me down in history....

with your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high, Still, I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don’t you take it awful hard

’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines

Diggin’ in my own backyard

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise?

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame,

I rise

Up from a past, that’s rooted in pain

I rise

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

The LAs whisper to our community, "You cannot withstand the storm" and our community roars back, "WE ARE THE STORM!!" #TeamOD Operation Diversity Community?https://www.facebook.com/groups/operationdiversitycommunity/ #YouAREAmazing!!!!!