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.
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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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My Instagram doesn’t cover my insecurities, my lack of self-confidence, that week I spent crying, there’s a question of whether I should be sharing that online.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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.
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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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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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