Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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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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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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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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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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I am my own best mirror.
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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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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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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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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.
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