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.
AMANDA GORMANYour daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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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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I am my own best mirror.
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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 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 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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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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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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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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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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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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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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