See the line where the sky meets the sea.
AMANDA GORMANI 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.
More Amanda Gorman Quotes
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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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 think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.
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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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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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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 am my own best mirror.
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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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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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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 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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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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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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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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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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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