To be haunted is to be hunted By a history that is still hu… - Amanda Gorman

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To be haunted is to be hunted
By a history that is still hurting,
Needing healing as much as we do.

Amanda Gorman

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Amanda Gorman (born 7 March 1998) is an American poet and social activist. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015, and became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. She studied sociology at Harvard College, and graduated cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received worldwide attention with her recitation of her poem "The Hill We Climb" written for the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

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Alternative Names: Amanda S. C. Gorman

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It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.

We were told to never use I when writing, because eliminating this voice makes arguments legitimate. But we realize there is nothing that convinces like the self does - our life, our body & its beating, proving its own jagged point.

Since the world is round
There is no way to walk away
From each other, for even then
We are coming back together.

To be haunted is to be hunted By a history that is still hurting, Needing healing as much as we do. - Amanda Gorman

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