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.
AMANDA GORMANI 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.
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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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.
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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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Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it’s this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.
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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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