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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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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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  I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

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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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  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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  I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.

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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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  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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  As a public poet, people often don’t see the reality of my life.

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

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  I am my own best mirror.

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

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

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

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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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