The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
AMANDA GORMANWhen you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.
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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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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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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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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.
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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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