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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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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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  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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  The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.

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

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

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

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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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  I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity, more support for the arts and more opportunities for young writers from marginalized groups.

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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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  When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.

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