What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.
AMANDA GORMANYou 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.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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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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My Instagram doesn’t cover my insecurities, my lack of self-confidence, that week I spent crying, there’s a question of whether I should be sharing that online.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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