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I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.
- 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.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Light
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Poetry
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Stand
It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I'm gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
- Amanda Gorman
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One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.
- Amanda Gorman
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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Living
#People
#Room
#Try
I was born early, along with my twin, and a lot of times, for infants, that can lead to learning delays.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Early
#I Was Born
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One of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as an auditory learner.
- 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.
- Amanda Gorman
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#People
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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.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Expression
#Just
#Over
#Writing
My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Black
#Grow
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When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Always
#Feel
#Fruit
#Life
Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to pronounce certain letters, sounds, and I felt like I was fine writing on the page, but once I got on stage, I was worried my words might jumble and stumble.
- Amanda Gorman
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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.
- Amanda Gorman
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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.
- Amanda Gorman
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#History
#People
#Progress
#World
One of the most rewarding moments of my career is when I'm speaking to a child who tells me they have the same speech impediment that I had to overcome and that they're going to keep writing or sharing their voice after hearing my story.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Overcome
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Fight
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#Us
I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Daughter
#Freedom
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#World
Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that's a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Ideas
#Me
#Poetry
Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Bridges
#Language
#Never
#Poetry
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.
- Amanda Gorman
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#Justice
#Norms
#Peace
#Quiet
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