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It is time for you to watch this again, or the 1st time. I have never made it through the whole presentation without tearing up. The honorable Ms. Amanda Gorman recites her poetry for President Biden’s and Vice-President Harris’ Inauguration, Jan 20, 2021. The tears, the tears that day!
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WATCH: Amanda Gorman reads inauguration poem, 'The Hill We Climb' - YouTube
Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet, read an original work at President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.After Biden was sworn in as the nation’s 46th presi...
11:48 AM - May 24, 2023
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The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman
1998 (California)
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.
Amanda Gorman
1998 (California)
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.
07:16 PM - May 24, 2023
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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 hours before we knew it, somehow we do it, somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished.
07:17 PM - May 24, 2023
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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.
07:17 PM - May 24, 2023
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And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn't mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. We are striving to forge our union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man.
07:18 PM - May 24, 2023
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And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first. We must first put our differences aside.
07:18 PM - May 24, 2023
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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.
07:18 PM - May 24, 2023
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That even as we tired, we tried. That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious, not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.
07:18 PM - May 24, 2023
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Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid.
07:19 PM - May 24, 2023
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If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won't lighten the blade but in all the bridges we've made, that is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare, it's because being American is more than a pride we inherit. It's the past we stepped into and how we repair it.
07:19 PM - May 24, 2023
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We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
07:20 PM - May 24, 2023
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And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated. In this truth, in this faith, we trust. For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.
07:20 PM - May 24, 2023
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This is the era of just redemption. We feared -- at its deception. 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.
07:20 PM - May 24, 2023
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So, while once we asked, “how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?”, now we assert, “how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?”
07:21 PM - May 24, 2023
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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.
07:21 PM - May 24, 2023
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Because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation. Our blunders become their burdens. But one thing is certain. If we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change, our children's birth right.
07:21 PM - May 24, 2023
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So let us leave behind a country better than one we were left with, every breath from my bronze pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
07:22 PM - May 24, 2023
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We will rise through the gold-limbed hills in the west, we will rise from the windswept northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution. We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the Midwestern states.
07:22 PM - May 24, 2023
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We will rise from the sun-baked South. We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover, in every known nook of our nation, in every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful, will emerge battered and beautiful.
07:22 PM - May 24, 2023
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When day comes, we step out of the shade, aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it for there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.
The new dawn blooms as we free it for there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.
07:23 PM - May 24, 2023
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THIS. This is what the these small, infinitesimal, soulless, disgusting, deplorable mfs would BAN? This!? My earrings are off. For THIS we storm the ramparts, we rage at the machine. This poetry was NECESSARY. This healed a nation. I am fuming.
07:25 PM - May 24, 2023
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And forgive all my typos, I did this from my phone and I was so furious. Please listen to Ms Gorman’s words for yourself.
08:28 PM - May 24, 2023
In response to Wokeity Woke Woke.
Amanda Gorman's inspiring, emotional performance was *exactly* what we needed after the insurrectionists' riot on January 6
I bought the book as soon as the English + Spanish version was available... love love love the poem, and her spirit
I bought the book as soon as the English + Spanish version was available... love love love the poem, and her spirit
06:53 PM - Jun 08, 2023
In response to Matthew Willemsen.
Indeed Matthew. She could as she is now enshrined in the annals of American history. Amanda Gorman uplifted us all that day.
04:23 PM - May 25, 2023
In response to Wokeity Woke Woke.
ONE bitter racist will never tarnish the beauty and significance of this poem; or Amanda Gorman’s contributions to this historic Inauguration or to this country as a whole.
Amanda will always shine like a star 🌟!
This moment will always be monumental!
#UnBanAmandaGorman
#IStandWithAmandaGorman
Amanda will always shine like a star 🌟!
This moment will always be monumental!
#UnBanAmandaGorman
#IStandWithAmandaGorman
08:05 PM - May 24, 2023
In response to Lisse (she/her).
That person is an isolated, fearful fool among us. They are inconsequential as history unforgivingly marches fwd.
08:21 PM - May 24, 2023
