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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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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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  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 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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  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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  I don’t want it to be something that becomes a cage, where to be a successful Black girl, you have to be Amanda Gorman and go to Harvard. I want someone to eventually disrupt the model I have established.

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  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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  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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  My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.

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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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  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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  If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?

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

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  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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  Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.

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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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