Gorman said she battled her speech impediment all the way into college. I don't want Secret Service to think, you know, Amanda is gone…mayday, mayday, yeah no." "But if backstage and I imagine if I'm standing next to Joe Biden, I might keep it here not to worry about craziness. So I'm usually in a bathroom or a dressing room," she said.
"If I can, and I'm not going to scare anybody off, I always say it out loud. "Do you say that inside your head, or do you say it aloud?" Mason asked. They call me.' And that is the way in which I prepare myself for the duty that needs to get done." We're descended from freedom fighters who broke through chains and changed the world. "One of the preparations that I do always whenever I perform is I say a mantra to myself, which is 'I'm the daughter of black writers. She told Mason that she prepared for the big moment the way she would prepare for any other performance. On Inauguration Day, Gorman did her truth-telling on the steps of the United States Capitol. And so for me, it's always existed in that tradition of truth-telling." "Inherently, you are pushing against the status quo. It is an instrument of social change.and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with," she continued. I feel like I could breathe fire.like I am summoning the energy not only of myself but of my ancestors." When Mason asked what she felt when she was performing poems, Gorman replied: "When I am on stage, I feel electric. And I said, 'if I can keep up with Leslie in this track, then I am on my way to being able to say this R in a poem,'" she said "My favorite thing to practice was the song Aaron Burr, Sir, from "Hamilton" because it is jam-packed with R's. Gorman, who had particular trouble with the letter "R," used music as therapy. 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman delivers stirring inauguration performance 03:49
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