I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
AMANDA GORMANBut 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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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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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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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 don’t want it to be something that becomes a cage, where to be a successful Black girl, you have to be Amanda Gorman and go to Harvard. I want someone to eventually disrupt the model I have established.
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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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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I am my own best mirror.
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