The poem "Alone" represents feelings of how African-Americans might have felt during this time. It explains how people need others to keep up with life. Maya explains in the poem that not even the richest people can go through life alone. As said people can't achieve anything alone, together everyone can make anything possible. Maya was close to the Harlem Renaissance as well
since that she knew Langston Hughes, the leader of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Both of them held meetings and parties for the people.