I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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When you’re someone who’s lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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 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 the most rewarding moments of my career is when I’m speaking to a child who tells me they have the same speech impediment that I had to overcome and that they’re going to keep writing or sharing their voice after hearing my story.
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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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 fight isn’t over – it’s just begun. It’s time to suit up for a battle that might determine the war.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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