Amanda Gorman, the United States' first-ever youth poet laureate, recited a powerful poem at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Amanda Gorman recites stunning poem at Biden inauguration
I teared up with pride watching her today.
I had a bowl movement 😮
@iDonnie Bio 🙄. BIG BABY
I teared up with laughter.
@Brandon Hunter And silly.
@Queen Bee Proud of what?
She is such a powerful talent. So glad she was given an opportunity to shine.
She stole the show. Amazing.
you said it therri!
https://youtu.be/3iWcNHsohm8
Ftis that
https://youtu.be/0AcMp9JJ8q0
oh wow
I’m glad she is own side!
A poem meant for today—we as Americans will survive and grow together. Brilliant young lady.👸🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️
@Nerdzombiedisco Crawl into your bigot hole … TIA
@Nerdzombiedisco Crawl into bigot hole … TIA
She didn’t write it! Just like they say FLOTUS Melania didn’t write hers!!!! No replies needed, not read.
@Nerdzombiedisco LOL!!!
@Krista Welch yeah, I totaly see
Her teachers/coaches “helping” her.
She delivered that poem very well. It brought tears to my eyes.
https://youtu.be/3iWcNHsohm8
Girl knocked it out of the park. Breathtaking, brilliant stuff.
Maya Angelou just gained a daughter. 😀
“Close the divide, put differences aside”. I love Amanda’s line. She’s awesome! Maya Angelou would be so proud🦅🇺🇸🥲👊🏾
@AC Nine-ball Conservatives always claim they want to limit the government. They reduce the size and authority of the EPA, the FDA, the CDC, the Civil Rights Division, etc…everything designed to protect the people from the greed and corruption of the Corporations. But they always expand the size and authority of the military, the DEA, the FBI, ICE, border patrol, etc…everything designed to control the people.
Above all else, conservatives value safety and security. It’s why you can’t cope with ‘foreigners’, it’s why you can’t handle ‘diplomacy’, it’s why you would rather convict an innocent person to prison, even death, rather than risk a guilty person going free.
Above all else, liberal value inclusion. It’s why we don’t have a problem with ‘globalization’, it’s why we’re more tolerant of immigrants and religious freedom. It’s why we would rather a guilty person went free (to perhaps be convicted another day) rather than risk an innocent person being convicted to prison.
Are you mad that large segments of Americans marched and protested all summer, and even rioted?? That’s what happens in every country, sooner or later, when segments of their populations are marginalized, even brutalized under cover of authority. The key is not marginalizing humans in the first place. In retrospect, it may have been more effective if the President had talked with Black Lives Matter when they were just kneeling during the anthem, rather than calling kneeling NFL players ‘Sons of B*tches’ on national television…..!
The questions you need to be asking yourself is what are YOU going to do to heal the divide. What steps are YOU going to take to meet us in the middle. How are YOU going to appeal to US. We don’t need your forgiveness. You need ours.
edit: btw, you ‘didn’t leave us alone’ when we were protesting, even rioting. You called out all the police and national guard and arrested HUNDREDS. You used tear gas and tazers, and unmarked vans with unmarked ‘officers’ called in by the Federal government to snatch people right off the streets. No cities were burned down, no neighborhoods were burned down. If people like you can’t stop lying, if there’s no common reality, then what common ground can there be?
@AC Nine-ball Are you on glue? There is no such thing as “more constitutionality”. That is a contradiction in terms. There is one constitution, one country, no more, no less.
But interesting to read your “slam” poetry. And no, not willing to accept extremist and terrorist rhetoric. Big difference between what you claim and right wing. Your anger is obvious but it’s clouding your judgement, hedging your insight. You just called something you believe to be “left wing” as stupid. So there’s yer sign. Name calling reduces your credibility, false equivalency weakens your stance.
Not sure what the “real world” is where you live but it sounds like your claim of no justice, no peace is only relegated to those of YOUR ilk, not to any other demonized group or person. So your failure of understanding tho sad, is what the rest of the real world is used to, the silence, a heavy sigh, maybe an unintentional eye roll before we carry on with our day. We all move on while you remain entrenched in a sea of pain and suffering that gets blamed on others who have no vile intent.
You claim you have been “demonized for four years”. Nonsense. Your lack of acceptance of grace, beauty and freedom of expression has obviously triggered your delicate sensibilities and blinded your realization that your view has been around for awhile…decades and decades of malicious intent to distort, mar and violate the emergence of truth and rights. And there’s yer sign…you already have rights but you have denied those same rights to others. So as a result, whosever platforms you are claiming to be your own are in fact moot if you can not disclose them. You cannot claim random allegiance to something other than the oath to your country without actually disclosing it.
And no, we are listening to the voice of reason, the voice of leadership, the voice of calm. The “we” you speak of has yet to come forward and take responsibility for their actions.
So there you go. Someone has spoken. Your jjibber jabber about static & electromagnetic forces sounds like Sheldon on crack. You rail about heavy artillery which may mean you have served and have been mentally challenged as a result. So no, it not anyone’s job to appeal to you or your ilk. Not when your comment history shows ignorance and reckless rhetoric similar to the 1/6 event. And for that all you get is reported. However it is up to you to get help, if no more than to stop the trigger.
Yesssssss! I almost forgot how it feels to see people with Brains and class.
“Just us is not Justice.” More powerful words have never been spoken.
Hello there
correction: “… and the norms and notions of what ‘just’ is isn’t always ‘justice'”
@m31dp correction of a correction: “… and the norms and notions of what ‘just is’ isn’t always ‘justice'”
The words in the Bible are more powerful.
@FeFe Gaga is it a competition? Does it automatically win because its a Bible quote? Try not to miss the point.
This young lady out shined everyone. She’s an absolute blessing!
She didn’t outshine Lady Gaga.
@MDA M. It’s called youth, intellect and soul.
Everyone shined on this day! Truly inspired by the beauty of it all.
Yeah, I can’t stop laughing.
@The Machine she sounds like Ilhan Omar.
She’s brilliant…wow! Such an inspiration to millions of young women, black women!
I can imagine school children analysing and appreciating this poem for years to come. From Australia, my respect for America is already returning.
@LuvU Robert there’s again nothing to indicate the others changed, I’m open to change but what has changed besides the words they speak? nothing
@StephBer1 Biden and Harris will bring Socialism and eventually Communism into this country with open arms. No cares about your opinion. Worry about your country I’ll worry about mine.
@Nerdzombiedisco BOO!
Stunning.
Thank you Adam, your comment brought tears to my eyes, it feels like we have awoken from a nightmare. Our future is bright!😎
“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’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace. In 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’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. 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.
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.
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. 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; that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious. Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.
Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid. If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in 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. Because being American is more than a pride we inherit; it’s the past we step into and how we repair it. We’ve seen a forest 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. In this truth, in this faith we trust, for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. This is the era of just redemption. We feared it at its inception. 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.
So, while once we asked: “How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?” Now we assert, “How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?”
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. 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 birthright.
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. We will rise from the gold-limned hills of the West. We will rise from the wind-swept Northeast 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 in every known nook of our nation, in every corner called our country our people diverse and beautiful will emerge battered and beautiful.
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.”
I got it now. Million Thanks!
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Exquisite
@Wens Gerdyman why did you link me in your answer sir? (Maybe I get it but I hope you did not mean what I think you did there😄)
Eloquently spoken from a generation to come 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏❤️🙌🏼
“We braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.” – Amanda Gorman
Truly an enlightened statement. Bravo.
“Now we assert how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us”
– Amanda Gorman Inauguration Day poet
My response to the young lady’s poem is “AMEN!” God bless America and President Joe Biden!
“We’ve braved the belly of the beast.”
as a 73 year man, she brought me to tears knowing that there is truly goodness that will lead the USA after I am gone
I will be 73 in three months time, besides Maya Angelou Martin Luther Kings Benjamin Zephaniah speeches and poems, I have never felt so moved and comforted as I have with Amanda Gordon’s poem, coming from such a young beautiful mind, her future is definitely bright, and I hope and pray so is America’s. If her words are taken into the hearts of all who hate, then hate will lose, if taken in by all who love then love will survive and all will grow stronger. I would love our PM of UK to listen to her proem. I doubt he will.
I’m glad we have old people like you!
in America I only saw every social injustices tackled freely. Democracy is like a fine glass beauty all it is but it is fragile we should handle it with care.
Jimmy Jack yes strongly agree with you. She had a similar effect on my heart too. I’m 70. God Bless, James
“a nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished…”
i cried
I did too, and I’m British. Bless you. I feel the pain of the past, I feel the sorrow of the present, I feel it will be a better tomorrow, I’m alive I can feel.
Same. Powerful words. I cried.
When she utter and act the words, my eyes got teary.
This kid just won “Best Speech”…..FOREVER.