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.
AMANDA GORMANTruth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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 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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To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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 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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When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.
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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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