When they tell you to go back to where you come from, tell them proudly that this is where you come from.
AMANDA GORMANGive us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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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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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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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 am my own best mirror.
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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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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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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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