The black notebooks
African American poets
Race awareness
Poets, American
Notebooks, sketchbooks
African americans, social conditions
American Poets
United states, race relations
African American women
Race relations
African Americans
Social conditions
Biography
"All my life I have passed invisibly into the white world, and all my life I have felt that sudden and alarming moment of consciousness there, of remembering I am black. It may feel like emerging too quickly from deep in the ocean, or touching an electric fence, or like a deer paralyzed in the headl…
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