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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.

Amanda Gorman

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
Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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Listening Myself Song
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
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
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
It wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.
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Beginning Love Myself Name Poet Writing Youth
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
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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Books Improvement Learning Myself Pieces Reading Time Voice Writing
I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity, more support for the arts and more opportunities for young writers from marginalized groups.
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Art Myself Opportunity Support Thinking Unity Writing 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
Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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Challenge Character Inspirational 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 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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Expression Issues Myself Need Ourselves Run Thinking
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
Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Act Best Ourselves Truth
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

Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.

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