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.
AMANDA GORMANI close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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 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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As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.
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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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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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 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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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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