Poet Amanda Gorman has had a life-changing year: she wrote three books and became the nation’s youngest inaugural poet. First on CBS MORNINGS, she tells co-host Gayle King about her lifelong dreams – and finding herself along the way. Additionally, Gorman shared an exclusive preview of “Fugue,” a new poem from her upcoming book Call Us What We Carry. The poem details the impact of the pandemic: “We have lost too much to lose.”
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Excerpts:
- On her rise to fame: “I think there’s like a little bit of impostor syndrome because I’m such a nerd, such a geek, can be so gangly. And I think when I was growing up, you know, I wasn’t just kind of a really brainy kid, I was a really Black kid, I was a really skinny kid, I was a really small kid. And also a kid whose voice was kind of distorted by a speech impediment. So all of these things kind of made me feel othered, or too different, you might say. And so, yeah, it really made me feel sometimes on the outside looking in. And I think nowadays, with more age behind me, I look back at it and I am so grateful for that experience, because all the things that make me different make me who I am. And they make me great.”
- On her future plans to run for president: “I think there’s just a type of spirit in me, which feels, if I’m not going to dream a dream for myself, who is going to? If not now, when? If not here, where? If not me, who? And so it’s kind of that questioning of both myself and the world that gives me these ideas, of how are the ways that I can continue to make change?”
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