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.
AMANDA GORMANGive us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
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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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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 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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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I 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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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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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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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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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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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 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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