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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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  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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  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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  No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.

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  What a day. What a life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

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  Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

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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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  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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  As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the ‘me too’ movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.

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  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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  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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