Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
AMANDA GORMANWhat 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.
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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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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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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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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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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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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What 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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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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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 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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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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