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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.
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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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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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Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.
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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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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 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 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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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