I been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,
Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me
Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'--
But I don't care!
I'm still here!

-Langston hughes

I like this poem because no matter what he went thru and no matter what was being done to him he held his ground. He didnt care what others thought and thats how its always post to be.