No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
AMANDA GORMANThe oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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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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I am my own best mirror.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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I 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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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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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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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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