There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it. ― Amanda Gorman

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That is the promised glade, The hill we climb, if only we dare it: Because being American is more than a pride we inherit— It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it. ― Amanda Gorman

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There is no better compass than compassion. ― Amanda Gorman

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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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White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings. — Huey Newton

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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. ― Amanda Gorman

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Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew That even as we hurt, we hoped That even as we tired, we tried ― Amanda Gorman

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Loss is the cost of loving ― Amanda Gorman

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The new dawn blooms as we free it, 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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