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.
AMANDA GORMANI 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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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 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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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 try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
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