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.
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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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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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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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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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.
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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
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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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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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