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.
AMANDA GORMANIt 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.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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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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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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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I am my own best mirror.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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