The fight isn’t over – it’s just begun. It’s time to suit up for a battle that might determine the war.
AMANDA GORMANWhat’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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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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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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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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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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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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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 was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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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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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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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 love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that’s Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, Phillis Wheatley.
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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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It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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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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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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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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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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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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