Help finding poem

[mary thomas <mwthomas@EARTHLINK.NET>]

My daughter is looking for a poem she first read two years ago in a high
school literature class. All she can remember, other than that she
really liked it and wants to read it again, is that the speaker was a
young woman, perhaps talking to her mother or thinking about advice her
mother had given her. She thinks the poet may have been a black woman.
She says that at the time she read it she told me that students in my
middle school would like it. Can anyone identify the poem or suggest
where I might look?

Mary Thomas, Librarian
Redwood Middle School
Saratoga CA
mthomas@saratogausd.org

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