Amanda Gorman Instagram – Still reeling with gratitude and pure joy to have received the @naacpimageawards Chairman’s Award the other night; what an honor that goes beyond words. Thank you so much to the @naacp and the Black community for continuing to celebrate and share my work in a long-standing heritage of the Black literary ancestors before me who made this possible, and thank you to our allies for protecting and supporting artists of the African diaspora. As I remind myself in a mantra before every performance: I am the daughter of Black writers, we are descended from freedom fighters, who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me 💛