The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
AMANDA GORMANWhen they tell you to go back to where you come from, tell them proudly that this is where you come from.
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The fight isn’t over – it’s just begun. It’s time to suit up for a battle that might determine the war.
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It wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.
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I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.
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When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.
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I am my own best mirror.
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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 has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
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Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.
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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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One of the most rewarding moments of my career is when I’m speaking to a child who tells me they have the same speech impediment that I had to overcome and that they’re going to keep writing or sharing their voice after hearing my story.
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I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity, more support for the arts and more opportunities for young writers from marginalized groups.
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One 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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.
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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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