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.
AMANDA GORMANPoetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
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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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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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