We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
AMANDA GORMANI 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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I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.
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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.
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I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity, more support for the arts and more opportunities for young writers from marginalized groups.
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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 is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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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.
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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.
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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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