it through her well-known poetry.

Not only is she Black, but also she's a woman. Satisfied with her femininity, she practically throws it in the face of the reader as being a medal of a sort. "That I dance like I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs," signifying her daring spirit, challenges anyone to deny her what is rightfully hers because she is feminine. "I rise," is her anthem as she proclaims it several times in the last stanza of her poem to punctuate her meaning that despite all, she has conquered and overcomes all, even the fear that has for so long scarred her years.

As a Black woman struggling in the very same world that the author describes, I am riveted to every line of this poem as it epitomizes my very own life. I get a sense that she smiles as she writes it, and I smile as I read it. I sense that she rejoices at imagining the discomfort of her intended audience as she boasts of her freedom from their lies and ill intentions. I rejoi

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)