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Amanda Gorman

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
See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Nature Sea See Sky
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
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
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Art Myself Poetry
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
When you’re someone who’s lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
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Life Live Yourself
If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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Herself Willing Woman
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 am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
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Black Break Change Fight Freedom Myself World Writing
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 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 and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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Change Language Poetry
What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Gratitude Life Thankful
We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Act Believe Ourselves
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

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