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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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  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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  Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.

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  We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.

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  Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

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

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  See the line where the sky meets the sea.

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  I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.

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