If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
AMANDA GORMANI am my own best mirror.
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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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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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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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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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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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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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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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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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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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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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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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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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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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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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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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