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We can make our words more connective since Sarah K, especially in an age that is technological

but still as human as ever before. She is a spoken word poet in her 20s who's become

a role model for teenagers, girls especially around the world. Millions of people, young

and old, have viewed her TED talk where she shared the main stage with figures like Bill Gates

and Jamie Oliver. As she tells it, poetry is an old way to tell our truths and a new one

at the same time. It's Homer, it's Shakespeare, it's Regina Specter, it's Jay-Z. Sarah K teaches

that listening is the better part of speaking and that depending on how we do it, finding

our voices and life in us and the world. She started to become passionate about this

in classrooms with teenagers while she was a college student.

A lot of what I was doing in schools had been trying to convince teenagers that it was

okay to be affected by emotion. It's okay to be scared, it's okay to be impressed, it's

okay to have these things that shake your world up a little bit and then turn that around

and tell me about it and put it into words so that other people know what it feels like

to have this experience that has moved you in some way and so I was really working and trying

to get people to rediscover wonder. Sarah K's way with words, I'm Christa Tippett, this is on

being from APM, American Public Media. Sarah K went to the United Nations International High School

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