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.
AMANDA GORMANPoetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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 born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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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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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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I am my own best mirror.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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