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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.

Amanda Gorman

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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Myself People Performance Reading
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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Future History Poetry
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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Issues Learning Myself Oneself Struggle
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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Challenge Kind Talk Yourself
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Art Myself Poetry
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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Feeling Growth Myself Place
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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Activity Crazy Encouragement Family Mom Myself Writing
Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Nation Poetry
If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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Herself Willing Woman
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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Justice Learning Peace Quiet
We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Act Believe Ourselves
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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Expression Myself Poem Word Writing
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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Black Establishment Girl Myself Success
Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Act Best Ourselves Truth
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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Battle Beginning Determination Fight Time War
No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Struggle Togetherness Yourself

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