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Jan 20, 2021 · ‘History has its eyes on us’. Lian Parsons. Harvard Correspondent. January 20, 2021 5 min read. Harvard alumna Amanda Gorman delivered a soaring inaugural poem. On Wednesday, Amanda Gorman ’20 stepped up to the podium to deliver the reading during the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.
Jan 21, 2021 · CNN — Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, read the following poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20: When day comes we ask ourselves,
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- On The American Dream
- On The Insurrection
- On Rising to Meet The Occasion
- On Shaping The Future For Young Americans
- On Being A United Nation
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We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one.
We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, It can never be permanently defeated.
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour. But within it we found the power to author a new chapter, To offer hope and laughter to ourselves.
We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free. We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation, become the future. Our blunders become their burdens.
We will rise from the golden hills of the west. We will rise from the windswept north, east where our forefathers first realized revolution. We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states. We will rise from the sun-baked south. We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover. And every known nook of our nation and every corner called our...
When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never ending shade? The loss we carry. A sea we must wade. We braved the belly of the beast We’ve learned that quiet isn't always peace, and the norms and notions of what just is isn't always justice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it. Somehow we do it. Somehow we weathered ...
Jan 22, 2021 · If you didn’t know who Amanda Gorman was before Wednesday, you do now. Gorman, 22, became the 6th and youngest poet to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, “ The Hill We Climb ,” captured viewers across the country, and made her an overnight literary sensation.
- “When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it. For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.
- “Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew. That even as we hurt, we hoped. That even as we tired, we tried” ― Amanda Gorman,
- “Somehow we've weathered and witnessed. a nation that isn't broken. but simply unfinished. . . And yes we are far from polished. far from pristine. but that doesn't mean we are.
- “That is the promised glade, The hill we climb, if only we dare it: Because being American is more than a pride we inherit— It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.”
Jan 21, 2021 · “It’s doing that in a way that is not erasing or neglecting the harsh truths I think America needs to reconcile with.” Read a transcript of the full poem below. When day comes we ask ourselves,...
Jan 20, 2021 · Amanda Gorman became the youngest person to deliver a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration, with the 22-year-old reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb” after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris...
