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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.

Amanda Gorman

Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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Courage Fight Inspirational Light Morning
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
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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Born Proud Yourself
What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Gratitude Life Thankful
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
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
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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Darkness Help Issues Light Myself People Poetry Purpose
Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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Control Government Ourselves Politics Right Worry
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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Change Language Poetry
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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Experience Sound Teaching Yourself
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
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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Confidence Insecurity Internet Myself Social Media
Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Nation Poetry
No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Struggle Togetherness Yourself
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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Ability Art Ideas Poet Poetry Reality Thinking Weapon
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

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