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.
AMANDA GORMANWhat’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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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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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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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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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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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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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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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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 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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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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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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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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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