Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
AMANDA GORMANWe know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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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 – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.
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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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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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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