And then she laughed and said, and here here I wrote a poem where five times I say, “we will rise”.Īnd I couldn’t say it. Now, those words are all the more powerful because Amanda Gorman herself, her entire life has suffered from a speech impediment where one of the ways that that impediment manifests itself is, she said her entire life she’s been unable to pronounce the letter R. Where she said, “we will raise a wounded nation into a wondrous one, we will rise.” I rise.”Īmanda Gorman, 22 years old, 22 years old, descendant of slaves, in fact, descendant of a slave named Amanda. I bring with me the gift my ancestors gave. Out of the huts of history’s shame, I rise up from the past, rooted in pain, I rise, leaving behind terror and fear.” Where she said, “you can write me down in history with those tragic and bitter lives, you can trod me in the very dirt but still like dust, I’ll rise.” She wore it to remember Maya Angelou, but she also wore it to kind of carry with her Maya Angelou’s spirit. That was a gift that was the shape of a caged bird, and she wore it in tribute to the poet Maya Angelou. Amanda Gorman wore a ring to the inauguration. She said, Somehow we have weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. Words heal the words of poet Amanda Gorman captured a nation’s heart and soul as she recited her poem, The Hill We Climb at the presidential inauguration.
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