The fight isn’t over – it’s just begun. It’s time to suit up for a battle that might determine the war.
AMANDA GORMAN
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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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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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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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 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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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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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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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’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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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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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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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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What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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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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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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