What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
AMANDA GORMANI 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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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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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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The fight isn’t over – it’s just begun. It’s time to suit up for a battle that might determine the war.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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