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“ ”Jan 6: Trump supporters storm the US Capitol, leading to the deaths of five people. Somewhere a poet writes in moonless light & all at once puts her pen down.
About Amanda Gorman
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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We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, And the norms and notions of what “just is” Isn’t always justice.
The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.
The only way to correctly predict The future is to pave it, Is to brave it. The breakage is where we begin. The rupture is for remembering.