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.
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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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.
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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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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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I am my own best mirror.
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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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