Amanda Knox
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Podcast Appearances
And it was like, you got to get up there and do a good job.
So I would go do my Easter speech.
I would memorize it.
But I would get up.
And it was like I would perform.
And so as I grew up,
People would wait.
I would get to do my Eastern speech last.
They know you got to do something with your Eastern speech.
But it gave me confidence and it gave me a sense of like, I could just get up here and speak.
And I just remember, you know, older black women, right?
Like the Miss Bernie Roos, the Miss Annie Luz, you know, the Miss Lavinia's that's sitting there.
Go ahead, baby.
Do it, baby.
And that just did something for me.
So like, you know, fast forward 20 something years later when I'm speaking at the UN, I'm nervous, but I had that confidence to be there because I revert back to what that felt like.
And so that was like the kid growing up.
But I was also that kid in student government.
I grew up in the church.
A very strong faith, spiritual spirit.