Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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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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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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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 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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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