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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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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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  What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

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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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  No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.

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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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  I am my own best mirror.

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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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