I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.
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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.
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When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.
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What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.
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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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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 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 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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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