The speaker in Angelou's poem is the confident black woman that many of us, even outside the black race, aspire to be. He represents class through the nature and softness of his words and represents strength by using an assertive attitude throughout the poem. He asks the reader several rhetorical questions that have great meaning. The speaker asks if her "brashness" causes the reader to be upset, but she answers her own question with a reference to the way she walks, which is so full of confidence that one might think that "oil wells...[are] ] in [her] ] living room”(“Still” 2).This stanza shows that she is confident and needs other options than her own.Mentioning the idea of ​​“oil wells” in her house shows that it may not be literally rich, but she is rich in spirit. She also asks if "[her] haughtiness offend[s]" the reader, i.e. she acknowledges her arrogance, but does not try to hide this fact because she believes she has good reason to be so. The speaker of the poem shows resilience by using violent verbs with actions that are not harmful, thus demonstrating untouchable behavior The phrases “shoot me” with “words,” “cut me” with “eyes,” and “kill me” with “hate” represent the. the speaker's contempt for what others think of her because, "like the air, [she] will rise" ("Again" 6). This represents a great deal of strength