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I close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.

Amanda Gorman

Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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Act Best Ourselves Truth
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
But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
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Creation Friendship Future History Honesty Love People Thinking Young
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
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
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
Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Nation 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
See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Nature Sea See Sky
It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
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Cry Each Other End Hug Kind Myself
I am my own best mirror.
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Instagram Captions Myself One Liner Self Love
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
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
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
What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
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Gratitude Life Thankful
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
Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.
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Listening Myself Song
Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it’s this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.
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Enjoyment Greatness Language Poet Poetry
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
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
We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Act Believe Ourselves
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
The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Art Myself 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
No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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Struggle Togetherness Yourself
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 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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