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.
AMANDA GORMANI close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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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 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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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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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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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I close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.
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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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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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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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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When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.
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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 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 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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I am my own best mirror.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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