There is power in being robbed & still choosing to dance. ― Amanda Gorman

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If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. -- Walt Whitman

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Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick. ― Amanda Gorman

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For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. ― Amanda Gorman

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There is no better compass than compassion. ― Amanda Gorman

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Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ― Samuel Beckett

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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

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In spite of everything, I shall rise again

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Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are. ― Roy T. Bennett

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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 it's own jagged point. Tell me what is more powerful than the unerased. ― Amanda Gorman,

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