I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.
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.
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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 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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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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I am my own best mirror.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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