What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.
AMANDA GORMANOne of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as an auditory learner.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.
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Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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My Instagram doesn’t cover my insecurities, my lack of self-confidence, that week I spent crying, there’s a question of whether I should be sharing that online.
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It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
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I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.
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I am my own best mirror.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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