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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
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As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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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.
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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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 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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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When you’re someone who’s lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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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 was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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