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Amanda Gorman

poet, activist, political activist

1998

Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet, activist, and model. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. She rose to fame in 2021 for writing and delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden. Gorman's inauguration poem generated international acclaim and, shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status and she obtained a professional management contract.

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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.

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

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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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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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For there is always light,

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When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid.

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

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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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Anyone who has lived

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

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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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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.

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When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid.

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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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The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.

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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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Anxiety is a living body,

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