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Amanda Gorman

What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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Existence Funny Poet Youth
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 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
Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Act Best Ourselves Truth
Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.
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Challenge Character Inspirational Yourself
I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
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Born Leadership Myself Time
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 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
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
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
One of the most rewarding moments of my career is when I’m speaking to a child who tells me they have the same speech impediment that I had to overcome and that they’re going to keep writing or sharing their voice after hearing my story.
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Career Moments Myself Oneself Reward Story Voice Writing
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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Listening Myself Song
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Art Myself 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
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
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 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
If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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Herself Willing Woman
What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Gratitude Life Thankful
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
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 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 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
When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.
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Greatness Learning Poetry Sound Strength Thinking Understand Weakness Yourself

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