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Maya 💖 gave the poetry reading at Clinton's first Inauguration!
Magnificent poem, and reading! 👏💖👏
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)RussBLib
(9,008 posts)we were sobbing
it was a pretty awesome poem, and delivered perfectly
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)Gothmog
(145,231 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 20, 2021, 09:28 PM - Edit history (1)
I used to stutter. The stutter is still there when I am very very tired. This is a very personal issue for me. I met Joe Biden at two fundraisers in 2019 (pre covid) and at one fundraiser, we discussed stuttering. I got a Biden hug and Joe told me about the 20+ young people with stutters he keeps in contact with. I loved Amanda Gorman's poem and I just found out that she is or was a stutter (the stutter never goes away entirely).
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/joe-biden-inauguration-speech-stutter.html?via=rss_socialflow_twitter
Link to tweet
This young lady is an amazing person
Maya Angelou also had a language issue when she was young
electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)Maya I knew about.