If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
AMANDA GORMANWhat a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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 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.
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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 grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.
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It 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.
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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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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 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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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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