Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
AMANDA GORMANSee the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of the most rewarding moments of my career is when I’m speaking to a child who tells me they have the same speech impediment that I had to overcome and that they’re going to keep writing or sharing their voice after hearing my story.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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