I close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.
AMANDA GORMANMy 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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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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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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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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I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.
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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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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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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Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.
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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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