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.
AMANDA GORMANThe oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
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It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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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