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.
AMANDA GORMANThe oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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 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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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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When they tell you to go back to where you come from, tell them proudly that this is where you come from.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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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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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.
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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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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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