This poem has earned this title not only because it is a line used in the poem, but also because this description of how the country Africa, aka the homeland (which can be embodied by a black woman) has suffered physical, metallic and emotional pain and is overcoming them, without forgetting its past. This is a diary that can be written by a black woman describing how she does not want to forget the horrible events that happened to her, but rather use them as strength and motivation to rise above it all . This journal entry depicts a black woman