The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
AMANDA GORMANI 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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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 am my own best mirror.
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It wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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 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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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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
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