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Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.

Amanda Gorman

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.
AMANDA GORMAN

Challenge Kind Talk Yourself
Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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Change Language Poetry
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
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
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 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
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
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
My Instagram doesn’t cover my insecurities, my lack of self-confidence, that week I spent crying, there’s a question of whether I should be sharing that online.
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Confidence Insecurity Internet Myself Social Media
Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.
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Nation Poetry
As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.
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Life People Poet Reality See
See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Nature Sea See Sky
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 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

Whenever I listen to songs, I rewrite them in my head.

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