As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
AMANDA GORMANPoetry 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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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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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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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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 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 was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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