We might not be fully sure of all that we are. & yet we hav… - Amanda Gorman

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We might not be fully sure of all that we are. & yet we have endured all that we were.

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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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Anyone who has lived
Is an historian & an artifact,
For they hold all their time within them.

Non-being, i.e., distance from society, social distance is the very heritage of the oppressed.

Which means to the oppressor that social distance is a humiliation.

It is to be something less than free, or worse, someone less than white.

We are walking beside our ancestors,
Their drums roar for us,
Their feet stomp at our life.
There is power in being robbed
& still choosing to dance.

We might not be fully sure of all that we are. & yet we have endured all that we were. - Amanda Gorman

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