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.
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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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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 was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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