I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
AMANDA GORMANAs 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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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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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 try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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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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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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