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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.

Amanda Gorman

The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Art Myself Poetry
I am my own best mirror.
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner Self Love
What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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Existence Funny Poet Youth
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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Myself Strong Teaching Thinking Word Writing Yourself
See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Nature Sea See Sky
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Struggle Togetherness Yourself
Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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Listening Myself Song
My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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Black Grow Up Mom Myself Preparation Skin
When 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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Born Proud Yourself
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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Cry Each Other End Hug Kind Myself
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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Challenge Kind Talk Yourself
To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.
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Books Improvement Learning Myself Pieces Reading Time Voice Writing
Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it’s this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.
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Enjoyment Greatness Language Poet Poetry
Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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Deep Language Perspective Poetry
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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Experience Sound Teaching Yourself

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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