The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
AMANDA GORMANTo 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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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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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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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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One of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as an auditory learner.
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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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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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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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 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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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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