Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
AMANDA GORMANAs 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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One of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as an auditory learner.
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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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.
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I am my own best mirror.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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When 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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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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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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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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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I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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