What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
AMANDA GORMANWhen 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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I am my own best mirror.
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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 and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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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 born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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 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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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