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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.
- 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 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...
- The Hill Staff
Jan 20, 2021 · Gorman echoed, in dynamic and propulsive verse, the same themes that Biden has returned to again and again and that he wove throughout his inaugural address: unity, healing, grief and hope, the...
- Camila Domonoske
Jan 21, 2021 · The nation’s youth poet laureate, Amanda Gorman, watched those chaotic scenes as she wrote her inaugural poem, ‘The Hill We Climb’, which the 22-year-old delivered after Mr Biden took his...
Jan 21, 2021 · Arts Updated on Jan 21, 2021 2:34 PM EDT — Published on Jan 20, 2021 12:36 PM EDT. Amanda Gorman opened her inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb,” with a question. Addressing newly sworn in...
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- Joshua Barajas
Jan 20, 2021 · Amanda Gorman performs powerful poem at inauguration: Read the full text of 'The Hill We Climb'. Amanda Gorman, the nation's first national youth poet laureate, made history again Wednesday as the ...
