AACI+rise

This poem is very touching and hope giving in a sense that the author/speaker is speaking to people going through hard times and telling them that if the people in our past made it then we can make it. I also feel like the speaker is talking specifically to the people of color because she talks about " Out of the huts of history's shame I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. " This quote shows that the speaker is an African American women and she does not care what people think of feel about her, that no mater what they do or say she will rise above there standers.