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

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
Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Act Best Ourselves Truth
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
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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Change Language Poetry
My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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Black Grow Up Mom Myself Preparation Skin
See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Nature Sea See Sky
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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Eyes Imagination Myself Togetherness Walk Women Young
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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Myself Strong Teaching Thinking Word Writing Yourself
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
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
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
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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Career Myself Poetry Remember Writing
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 am my own best mirror.
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner Self Love
If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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Herself Willing Woman

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