American Serena Jameka Williams is one of sport's great champions.

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod 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.

Serena's father was a former sharecropper from Louisiana.

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?

In 2011, Williams found a blood clot in one of her lungs.

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.

"When I was a little girl, in California, my father and my mother wanted me to play tennis," she told the crowd in French after her Frech Open title. "And now I'm here, with 20 Grand Slam titles."

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.

"I would really like to take this moment to congratulate Venus, she is an amazing person," Serena says "There is no way I would be at 23 without her. There is no way I would be at one without her. She is my inspiration, she is the only reason. I am standing here today and the only reason that the Williams sisters exist."

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.

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Serena Williams: You have to be your own cheerleader

American Serena Jameka Williams is one of sport's great champions.

Serena's father was a former sharecropper from Louisiana.

In 2011, Williams found a blood clot in one of her lungs.

"When I was a little girl, in California, my father and my mother wanted me to play tennis," she told the crowd in French after her Frech Open title. "And now I'm here, with 20 Grand Slam titles."

Your working world has changed forever. Through internet marketing, you can make the internet work for you. Even earn free bitcoin.

Even if the elites choose not to end financial folly & continue to make currencies fail you now have a choice in money. Goldmoney, the Uber or Airbnb of money, facilitates your own personal gold standard via a Goldmoney account.

Let's connect on: Twitter | Instagram | Medium