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.
AMANDA GORMANIt wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.
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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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When they tell you to go back to where you come from, tell them proudly that this is where you come from.
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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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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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.
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It wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.
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I am my own best mirror.
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