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 GORMANThe 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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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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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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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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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