Poetry allows a person to voice their beliefs and create a concrete form to issue the importance of race and feminism. By writing this poem, Audre Lorde is seeking for equality. She references to the fact that African American women tend to suffer more than a woman from any other race. She wants to impact society with her words, by bringing awareness to the fact that women are entitled to their rights, as well as African Americans in general. She places emphasis on the strong role that African American women play by saying, “I am/ woman /and not white” (Lorde 33-34). In this quote, she exemplifies a woman’s battle for rights within each woman’s community, however, she specifically is referring to African American women who have encountered
