The Sky is Purple: Robyn Adams at TEDxTexasTechUniversity

A 19-year-old sophomore at Texas Tech University, Adams is currently ranked No. 4 as a youth poet in the state of Texas. Over the course of five years, she has been very active in creative writing and performance, and during that time, has discovered that her words can open doors for her. From her experiences, she learned that words are powerful not only because they allow us to be free but also because they break through the boundaries of ethnicity, sex, and age. Robyn seeks to teach her audience to express themselves through writing so that one day the courage of their speech may cause a magnitude of change in someone else's life.

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