We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
AMANDA GORMANI 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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I am my own best mirror.
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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 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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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 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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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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One of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as an auditory learner.
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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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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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