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Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.

Amanda Gorman

I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.
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Feeling Growth Myself Place
You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.
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Ability Future Impact Poet Politics Word Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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Herself Willing Woman
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 has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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Deep Language Perspective Poetry
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
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
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
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
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
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

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