She Who Knows No Boundaries’ by LaTiefa Alston

Throughout the poem ‘She Who Knows No Boundaries’ by LaTiefa Alston, ‘I’ is repeated to affirm that the persona is celebrating her life. She explains how, through out her childhood, she had strict boundaries to follow. These boundaries shaped her into: the ‘….forthright, dedicated individual who knows NO BOUNDARIES’ that she is today. Now she has a life, and ‘survival tactics’. She has no boundaries. She is a free woman, who doesn’t care what people think.
The persona explains about how she didn’t have an easy childhood. She had to endeavour many boundaries; such as spiritual, moral, emotional and racial boundaries. An example of the racial boundaries in the poem is:
‘went to school where teachers and students feared my “angry Black”
presence’
This quote explains how not only the children and peers around the persona, but also the teachers, discriminated against her race. This would make it even harder for the persona as, she would have no one to talk to as; all of them are discriminating against her.
by Annabelle Lambert