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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman. 31,865 ratings, 4.56 average rating, 3,057 reviews. Open Preview. The Hill We Climb Quotes Showing 1-21 of 21. “When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid. The new dawn balloons as we free it.
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...
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“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.” — Amanda Gorman, inauguration poem, The Hill We Climb “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 alway...
“We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another We seek harm to none and harmony for all 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, Call Us What We Carry “For it’s our grief that gives us our gratitude, Shows us...
“Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character.” — Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry “I can hear change humming In its loudest, proudest song. I don’t fear change coming, And so I sing along.” — Amanda Gorman, Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem “Hear me as a woman Have me as your sister On purpled battlefield breaking day, So I mig...
“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.” ― Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country “We are the good news that we have been looking for, Demonstrating that every dusk holds a dawn disguise...
“There is no such thing as gentle war. There is no peace That can’t be flung aside. Our only enemy is that which would Make us enemies to each other.” — Amanda Gorman “The single greatest challenge of our era is to transform without wrath, war, or wariness.” — Amanda Gorman “Would we crave peace If we knew what it was” — Amanda Gorman “We lift our ...
“While we might feel small, separate, and all alone, our people have never been more tightly tethered. The question’s not if we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather the unknown together.” — Amanda Gorman, The Miracle of Morning, Call Us What We Carry “I think sometimes our terror is a great kind of flag to symbolize a type of love or ...
Jan 22, 2021 · That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare.” At the end of the the poem Amanda returns to her initial question of how to “find light” during difficult times: When day comes, we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid.
Jan 20, 2021 · On Wednesday, Amanda Gorman ’20 stepped up to the podium to deliver the reading during the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. Her piece, titled “The Hill We Climb,” called for unity and justice, through both reckoning with the nation’s past and looking toward its future.
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,
