Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
AMANDA GORMANI try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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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 am my own best mirror.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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 was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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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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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 don’t want it to be something that becomes a cage, where to be a successful Black girl, you have to be Amanda Gorman and go to Harvard. I want someone to eventually disrupt the model I have established.
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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