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.
AMANDA GORMANI 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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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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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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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity, more support for the arts and more opportunities for young writers from marginalized groups.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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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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