My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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I am my own best mirror.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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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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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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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