Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman delivers a poem at Joe Biden's inauguration
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- Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, the Youth Poet Laureate of 2017, delivers a poem at President Joe Biden's inauguration. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: cnb.cx/2NGeIvi
Amanda Gorman, 22, became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history after reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb.”
“But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated,” Gorman read. “In this truth, in this faith, we trust.”
Gorman is the current United States Poet Laureate. At age 16, Gorman became the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles and later became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017 as a sociology student at Harvard.
First Lady Jill Biden invited Gorman to participate in the inauguration in late December after hearing the poet at the Library of Congress.
Gorman immediately made waves following her reading at the inaugural ceremony, becoming the top trending Google search topic in the U.S.
Her words rang across the country: “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.”
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She gave me English homework
She gave me CSPE homework but I don't care! She's amazing!
same lol i have to do an essay on it
@@Fawnsi doing it as we speak
Me too 😭🖐🏽
oh my god this is such a good speech
Half of the comments: **praising her for being so smart.**
The other half of the comments. *SHE GAVE ME HOMEWORK.*
i just listend to this 5 minute speech, still dunno what she wanted to say. Girl if you wanna say something do it ! I have to sum it up for homework i bet i can do it in 3 lines ! Honestly streching your 1 minute speech up to 5 doesen´t ,make it more interseting ....
@@dizzi051herab7 Thanks for your comment middle aged white guy.
@@bob-zi1eb Would a middle aged white guy be concerned about homework? Think before you type, Bob.
lol im doing it now
she gave me homework tho
"While we have our eye on the future, history has an eye on us" May we always remember this.
History looked at US, but we failed to learn from it
Blinded by the future that we cannot see the present.
Bask in false victories, while shirking responsibilities.
Fail your allies, cooperate with bad guys.
See a nation in violence, while maintaining radio silence.
Saigon came and went, Afghanistan left for dead.
All the while asking:
20 years for WHAT?
@@agamemnonofmycenae5258 did you write this? Poignant and true
Impeach Joe Biden and remove him from office!!
SJW's are rewriting history to coincide with THEIR BS narrative!
History is begging us to remember it. Not the lie we were all taught in school.
I come back to watch this every once in a while. It helps me get my head out of stupid selfish priorities. This girl is amazing.
Hello thanks for your comments and supports, your comments and constant supports have brought me this far. Keep supporting❤️
Please send me a mail via amandascgorman2@gmail.com
Each sentence of the poem is a topic to ponder and reflect upon. I too came back to feel some inspiration
REPARATIONS AND ANTI BLACK CRIME BILLS FOR BLACK AMERICANS.. ALL THIS OTHER TALKING & HAPPY FLUFF BABBLE BULL@HIT MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT TANGIBLE RESOURCES.. EVERYONE ELSE GET RESOURCES THEY LIKE TO ONLY GIVE BLACK FOUNDATIONAL AMERICANS LIP SERVICE..
She should be amazing, she attended a private primary/secondary that cost $40k/year and attended an Ivy League School. She’s had every advantage given to her that money can buy.
I am profoundly deaf & the closed captions are horrible! I wish I knew what she was saying!
“Being American is more than a pride we inherit... It’s the past we step into and how we repair it.”
nope, commie.
@@idkanymore3382 go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌💕
@@idkanymore3382 go back to sleep
@Dorset Deb go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌💕
@Dorset Deb what city did this young woman burn?
With young people like this America has a future.
Already the stench of Trump has been dissolved.
@@ethanmariani5152 promoting people just like yourself then
@@ethanmariani5152 Based on what? Did you even hear her poem? Or did you just glare at her skin?
@@witchplease9695 and did you make that assumption because you also see a difference in skin colour and just assumed that this was about race even though no one hinted it except for you?
@@ethanmariani5152 are you writing from your basement trying to avoid the Feds?
Won’t work mate,you’re toast.
She doesn’t only dances with words, but also with her hands.... love this ❣️
doesnt everyone in this rank of hierarchy do that? i mean look at trump or just any president before that.
@@nekemli1491 what do you mean?
This is literally the worst speech in history
Her words, her delivery, her gestures and her mannerisms are perfect. Such a great performance, message and young woman!
@@MasterJoeKerr *hitler and stalin would like to show some of their speeches *
Turn on the captions it’s 1000 times better.
yo why's it in Dutch bruh
@@theIronicLegend that’s what I’m sayin
Holy hell that is amazing xD - automated english voice recognition to text to dutch back to english makes for a great read!
shine a light on this because im hearing impaired and watch everything with captions or subtitles and youtube captions are trash
@@thomaskaiser2475 trash is just about the point - because they are auto created, then translated back and forth from english to Dutch to english, they turn out hilariously bad.
"we've learned that quiet isn't always peace in the norms and notions of what is "just is " isn't always "justice" WHAT A QUEEN
Brilliant, hopeful, powerful
Yes that part!
AMEN
When is the last time you referred to a white person as king or queen?
Really? A pun impressed you? An overused pun that wasn't that clever to begin with? Okay.
Her body language adds a tremendous amount of feeling to her words. Her eyes, her facial expressions - and of course her hands. This is a very special woman.
Very!!
She is a good actor and has excellent instructors who are paid to write for her, money can buy everything, at least for short time.
About as *special* as Greta Thunberg.
@@lsophial You really think so? You think she can't write for herself, that she's reciting somebody else's words. Then WHY so? Because she's young, female, and Black? If that's what you think, I pity you.
@@lsophial She is a poet and author...
This poem will forever be my favorite. The lines are so powerful & in a time where it was so hard to describe our experiences with words. She did such a beautiful job & these lines will always be so dear to me.
Hello thanks for your comments and supports, your comments and constant supports have brought me this far. Keep supporting❤️
Please send me a mail via amandascgorman2@gmail.com
REPARATIONS AND ANTI BLACK CRIME BILLS FOR BLACK AMERICANS.. ALL THIS OTHER TALKING & HAPPY FLUFF BABBLE BULL@HIT MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT TANGIBLE RESOURCES.. EVERYONE ELSE GET RESOURCES THEY LIKE TO ONLY GIVE BLACK FOUNDATIONAL AMERICANS LIP SERVICE..
she gave me english homework and its due today :(
lmaoooooooooo
Bro I’m doing it now😭
same bro
@@kellyclark2832 same lmaooo
Same
"For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it"
“We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.” Wow...
Wow wow extremely powerful Poem. The very best I have heard in my life time. Wow #2021
@You Tube, sour grapes 🍇
"And the norms and notions of "just what is" isn't always justice" ---- so good!
@Fuq Utube go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌
The world is watching, and this magnificent lady is what they're seeing and listening to. So proud 🤎🧡❤️
She's indeed beautiful her voice, personality and her whole self
@John Adams it’s a one of those hair clips or something
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Absolutely 💯
You lyin'.
I agree, if only her ideas were beautiful too.
Imagine, even as a kurdish guy, who has never been to US, I'm deeply touched and overwoamed by these words of this beautiful, humble, golden evidence of human's ability to increase, to learn, to rise and shine!
Everlasting love from Kurdistan for Amanda Gore, and everyone who led, helped and educated her....
It's not just her words, but how she's speaking them. Her hand gestures, eye contact, facial expressions. Already a master of public speaking.
"Master (Whoops! poor word choice for the "woke" crowd -- be careful 😁) of public speaking?" Uh, no to that.
@@mmjhcb Go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌💖
@@minkkflow Who's crying? Just the opposite.
I wish the camera had pulled back and stayed only on her. I would have like to have seen all of it.
@@mmjhcb Go cry somewhere else. 💖
“A new light
If only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to BE it”
@K B mate wtf you smoking cuz i want some
@@ryanford1573 I don't, sounds like the kind of aggressive delusions a person gets from staying awake for far too long on methamphetamine.
What’s “new”??
This is only Obama’s 3rd term.
@@ryanford1573 oh no whatever they're smoking is making them nuts
@K B you embarrass us all.
This is the great thing about literary pursuits: learning from it never ends because of people like Amanda.
The only reason people clapped was because it was finally over.
@@MasterJoeKerr Nah, everyone there loved it, MAGAt. They clapped because they understood all the big words.
@@sportsguydave6201 Thank you for reminding me that I made this hilarious comment 😂
@@MasterJoeKerr LMAO! You’re welcome, cranky old white dude. Now show us on the doll where the smart young black girl hurt you!
The only thing I would change is that those giant microphones weren’t obstructing her beautiful face. She speaks and moves with such grace. 💗
Nice to know someone loves her because I do not I ha///The her since she is the reason my dad is dead
@@anjafasting1472 why is she the reason?
@Reaver Red that's okay, most have social anxiety and I hope you overcome it 😊
@@anjafasting1472 how tf is she the reason your dad died?
@@anjafasting1472 🤨🤨📸
She could be reading a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and I'd be mesmerised by her poise and tone
Literally 🤣
🤣🤣🤣 exactly what I said.
Exactly what I was thinking 🤪😂🤣
@San Cambly Show some respect for women!
👌🏾🙌🏾🤣🤣🤣🙌🏾
Dont say "we need more people like her" ...
Say "I need to be like her" ...
Can't write like her though ;) nor as beautiful. Wow.
Speak
love this ...... :) Zoe , Canadian neighbor
👏
Profound! And an absolute truth!
I am also a poet. Of course, I'm not worthy to even be compared to the great Amanda Gorman. Her poetic genius is earth-shaking and beyond anything I could ever hope to write myself. Here is a modest little offering of my poetry:
I reminisced of a time long ago when I was only twenty years old.
I was studying English 101 at the University Of British Columbia in the summer of Eighty-Four.
It was at a summer session because I had failed English 101 two years before.
A failure due more to my citizenship in a different realm than to the failings of my intellect, aptitude, or the magnanimity of my core.
“You have such a poignant and evocative writing style,” wrote my teacher on the short story I had submitted the week before.
I had written about a lonely sojourn on a desolate beach in the pregnant moment,
When sunset injures day's abandon and grants night the freedom to roam.
I had written about the mighty North Shore mountains,
Hoary with age and reverberating with an energy ineffable to the mind,
But savored by the soul.
I remembered how exhausting of mind, but above all of the soul, writing that short-story had been.
I tried to reveal my spirit bare and exposed.
I tried to destroy the ramparts and blow open the heavy gates shielding my secretive core.
But through my exhausting efforts, I had only succeeded in weakening the facade between me and the world,
Usually held at arm's length,
But through my story then, only slightly nearer yet still remote.
There is an essence within everyone hidden in a chamber far beneath the veneer that encrusts our core.
We seldom allow it expression beyond just its fractured shadows dancing on an external wall.
But if we all dig deep and reach into this secretive chamber,
We will, to our astonishment, discover we are all reaching into the same chamber,
Not a separate one for each within the all.
And then we will grasp each other's same-hand.
We all share the same soul.
I knew that in the novel of my compulsion I would have to expose this chamber,
Ramparts and heavy gates destroyed once and for all.
And my novel would then cry out from this collective chamber,
And speak for my left and for my right with one voice for all.
It would be the ineffable ground of being reaching out to humanity from the navel of Creation,
Proclaiming the dawn of a Third Age.
It would announce the sunset of the Second Age before this coming dawn.
A moment pregnant with change that will forever be remembered in the annals of the Civilization of Man.
It would herald a paradigm shift far greater than the Renaissance,
Not just an age of reason, but of reason and divinity intertwined as an inseparable whole.
I envision the Third Age to be promoting the two primordial dancers,
The abstract magical, and the other, its complementary whole.
To engage in the Dance and thence unshard into the Eternal Garden from whence we all came forth.
They are in Eternity entwined but sharded into the realms of space and time.
They are shards of the divine.
Would composing such a novel be an arduous journey,
Exhausting my body and above all my core?
Would I be as a drowning man,
Gasping for breath,
Kicking and screaming while with futility grasping for shore?
But would every paragraph and page exhaust me,
Yet also leave me yearning for more?
It would, I am sure.
This arduous compulsion will also uplift and invigorate me with waves of catharsis and frisson.
And I pray dearly for the same in my reader,
of soul-piercing joy.
If I fail to evoke the same in my audience then I would have failed to breach the ramparts and the gates shielding my innermost chamber,
Our collective soul.
Only within this innermost shared sanctum can I truly touch someone's soul.
And by touching one, I will be touching them all.
I've watched this a bunch of times over the past couple months. Any time I need to be uplifted. My beloved aunt just died of Covid. Thank you Amanda, once again, for helping us endure.
“We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of “what just is”, isn’t always Just-ice” Powerful!
Clever clichés are “powerful”??
@@abulahab6528 I wish you more positivity.
Bars 👌🏾
@@abulahab6528 fire bars are
Viji
“The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it.”
-Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb.
Beautifully said 👏🏽
A wonderful reminder of the power of poetry. In an age where we have a thousand ways to communicate, simply standing in front of people and reciting words you've crafted is still the most potent.
Great point! Thanks for saying that.
gave me homework🤦🏾♂️ due by the end of the day
Wanna send the answers to me?
same :(
Cute commrnt :)
sameee
same
She's breathtaking. Something about her presence is captivating.
Your last name is white, that's racist
@@saltygorilla7663 you’re embarrassing
@@arina4030 😢😢😢😂😂🖕
I am obsessed, with her speech
@@saltygorilla7663 to
"While democracy can be periodically delayed, it can not be permanently defeated" Thank God and Amen.
🙏🏿
გიგი
Lets hope so. Democracy is pure evil.
Did you know that America is a Constitutional Republic...? ...Not a democracy. Do you know the difference? I doubt it!
YES! one of my favorite part... but I love it all
Miss Gorman, YES! What a stunning woman! What a performance! Those words, big, bold, brave, handed to the world by this confident, talented woman is a hope of a better world in itself!
I say bravo and applaud you Miss Gorman, you are going to be great, wrong, you ARE great, and you will be remembered!
All should be equal because God does not support racism, division and inequality. Loving this. Keep it up!
"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 a 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"
Why does God have to be involved? As compassionate and caring people we can speak for ourselves and say no to hate and injustice.
wow your first sentence is so wrong unless we aren't talking about the same god
@@wiseguy9225 We were All made in God's own image. He does not like division nor racism. He intended us all to Love, Live and Work together towards prosperity and success. Everyone should have that shot without any road blocks. This is the United States of American One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All. Not the Divided Confederate States of America under No God with Liberty and Justice for a certain Race.
@@zeal0tseven57 God is love which is why he the first in line that should be involved. In otherwords, he should be put first in our lives. The Living Bible (His Word) is the greatest teacher and guide thru this so called life, of all time. He created us all with unique special gifts and talents. He knows each and everyone of us more than we could ever possibly completely know ourselves.
@@kellyhno2712 People are shooting medicals with shotguns in the name of youre god for having committed abortion
When they first said "Poet Laureate" I thought, ehhh not my thing. Turns out it's my thing, Wow just amazing.
I felt the same way but boy howdy, am I glad I listened! She's brilliant!
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I can lie. I'm not into poetry much either but she's so beautiful i started to watch. I'm glad I did, what a powerful appeal and words combined.
Poetry is probably telling more truth than the news right now...it is an amazing medium to showcase how current events (personal and communal) impact lives. She was amazing.
@@AnnaBell033 yes.👍
I'm a fifty nine year old man and this young Lady made me cry it got to me in my heart she has a new fan.Thank You So Much Amanda You Are Loved.
Isn't she a beautiful young lady. I love her voice and her gorgeous face
@Alex Winterborn this the true American way. Hi from Greece
I'm a 55-year-old man who has cried all three times I've watched her stunning America back to consciousness.
@Alex Winterborn Thank you for your service 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Every once in a while I come back to this to recharge hope. So beautiful and moving.
Yeah!!! Me too.
When I see this poem. I think about how this girl is a democrat. She is so so smart and talented. What makes me sad is that it just makes it so clear how intellectually rotten the right side is.
She gave me history homework.
Because you're intellectually lazy.
@@MrLordoom you’re right I used to hate history because I was too lazy to read all the chapters now I love learning from it 🧠🧐
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Wait you’re teacher did or this woman that made the speech
Check out some of my work.
Future English Literature students get ready to study this.
agreed.
my teacher is giving m extra work because the way she presented the poem reminded him of how I did mine for school....
Literally sharing it with my students now lol
also get ready for adopting neomarxist pc agenda and working as a barista
@@PURPLECHICKEN370 a moderate democrat was elected! the sky is falling!
My mom cried after listening to this. I may be a Canadian, but I have family in America. She is talking like a true American.
I cried.
me too ....beautiful...
@K B The point is that this really touched some people in a very good and hopeful way.
Acknowledging the difficulties that we face.
Feeling resolute.
Feeling pride.
A positive strong emotion can be focused into actual change.
@K B 🤡
this was the wrong day for eyeliner, that's for sure -- so inspired
Imagine taking her on a date "this sandwich is meant for eating, the drink is made for drinking, I shall look and eat" 😂
Being American is more than a pride we inherit, it's the past we step into and see how we repair it, DEEP !!!
“The Hill We Climb”
Amanda Gorman
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 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’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 a union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.
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, 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 should make them afraid. If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in in all of 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 force that would shatter our nation rather than share it. That would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy, and this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can periodically be delayed, but 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 in 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 can 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 burden. 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 the 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 golden hills of 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, we will rise from the sunbaked 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 the 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.
Matthew thank you so much .
Matthew you are awesome!!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Matthew!
Thanks a lot for sharing 🥰🥰🥰🥰
You the best thank you
Im a retired Marine and I have listened to this about 20 times now. This is what this country needs and her words is exactly how i feel and think this country should be. When you actually served and love this country it makes you feel a certain way because you know that this country can be better for all if we all step up and stop trying to devide and help build bridges 🌉
Thank you for your service 🙏🏻🇺🇸!!
Trump 2024
I once believed like you did. But sadly, this country will continue to care for the rich and powerful first and foremost.
I'm a British veteran and I've watched it over 10 times. This lady has shown the world that the USA is still an example and leader to the world.
She's just 23 and look at her, just beautiful. I want my daughters to look up to her
This girl really should become president one day! I could listen to her every single time, she had me within the first few seconds with that fabulous strength of voice and conviction.
Girl, if those who came before you could see you now, they'd be so proud you go here.
Keep going! Climb until you touch the sky and don't let anyone steal your thunder!
I can't help but think what would Dr King say if he was sitting in the front row listening to this genius intellectual woman
I'd wager he'd think "What the f..." his dream turned out to be a nightmare: 2021 is all about the colour of one's skin rather than the content of one's character. Meanwhile, slam poetry [shudder] = "genius intellectual" lol? God help us.
@@anthonyreed480 Amen to that .
@@anthonyreed480 Lol scrolling through these comments the only people I see bringing up race are the Republicans trying to trash her
@@robot-he6nq Um...she literally brings up race. So, if all you see is "Republicans" responding to it, then you're saying they're the only ones actually listening to and engaging with her subject matter, rather than simply saying "yass qweeen" - nice comeback champion 👍
since he had so many affairs he might have the hots for her.
Full transcript:
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
And the norms and notions
of what just is
Isn’t always just-ice
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 a 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's 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 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
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 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 we 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 the 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-limbed hills of 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,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
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
Thank you Steve..
Thanks Stev, as a non-native English speaker it will help me to better understand.
TY
Thank you!
She was so boring. Zzzzzz
Brilliantly written and delivered. The majority of the world could benefit hugely from the message being conveyed.
REPARATIONS AND ANTI BLACK CRIME BILLS FOR BLACK AMERICANS.. ALL THIS OTHER TALKING & HAPPY FLUFF BABBLE BULL@HIT MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT TANGIBLE RESOURCES.. EVERYONE ELSE GET RESOURCES THEY LIKE TO ONLY GIVE BLACK FOUNDATIONAL AMERICANS LIP SERVICE..
Whenever the chips are down for our nation I watch this yet again and mull over Amanda Gorman's words: "...a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished. [...] And so we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us."
Such vigorous, youthful genius.
Damn. I’m not even American and this made me so proud. I’m crying 😭
You actually need a psychiatrist to sort out your mood swings.
@@abulahab6528 being emotional isn't having mood swings. Stop being such an armchair psycologist.
@@pink.lemonade7715 lol
@@abulahab6528 I think u need to check ur self in lol you seem to be lost
@Abu Lahab you need help
apparently she was born premature and had auditory and speech processing issues,. all i can say is WoW , im speechless , she is the highlight of this event.
That’s not saying much. Yay Antifa. Bad Patriots! So much for unity.
@@christianhardwick6530 dont care much about politics in US ..im just happy coz i have a 460 baby boy, 23weeker and this gives me hope .. that’s all
But you're not speechless. You've written a paragraph about it.
Lmao 🤣
@@johncitizen9540 well, if you are stupid enough then Yes you are right LoL
Can’t stop watching and listening to this. I have watched it for over 50 times. You nailed it! You spoke to the world on that day, not just Americans...
What injustice has she suffered again? Didn't the rioting in all of our cities all year long make her feel like she got some restitution for all the injustices she experienced?
Amanda Gordon attended a private school in Santa Monica called New Roads for grade K-12. She then proceeded to Harvard College on a Milken Family Foundation College Scholarship. While at Harvard, she studied Sociology and became the first person to be named national youth poet laureate in April 2017. The same year, she won a $10,000 grant as part of the OZY Genius Awards. OZY is a media company.
Her mother was a teacher.
Her clear skin is literally goals
A young Maya Angelou, this young lady has quite a future before her.
I know the compliment you pay her. Yet, she is not a young Maya Angelou. Dr. Angelou was secondary to her poetry contributions to creativity, her autobiography contributions. This young lady is representing the birth of someone new to the words of a legacy of wordsmiths. She can certainly be considered one who represents the future, but she is her own and not a young Maya Angelou. No disrespect intended and of course, you are due your own point of reference of course. I guess poets are always compared or identified by someone before. I look at her and see the first black female and Asian Vice President, the exact same view Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood during his speech and the hands of those slaves who built that white house. I hear them all standing proud.
@@TheAissa2 What are the chances that some of the slave labor to build DC came from Harris’ great great grand pappy plantation? Asking for a friend
@@rumrnr78 Harris's father was from Haiti and mother from South India. Where does the plantation ancestry come in?
peakae44 I thought her dad was Jamaican? don't know much bout politics or what not so i apologize in advance if i'm wrong
This is honestly one of the best speeches I have ever heard.
I wouldn't say the best but it's a great speech/poem especially at such a dire time. Trump supporters don't even know how to hate on this they're just saying a bunch of nothing in the comments.
top notch
Amen to that.
@@SAINTxSZN she said one of.
@@SAINTxSZN Pointing the finger, part of the problem. When Biden calls for unity, it is this type of behavior that he is referring too.
I get goosebumps everytime I hear this. Her vibe is so positive. And I’ve memorized most of it, it’s words still give me goosebumps every 200th time.
"Quiet is not always peace." WOW .... well said.
This entire moment, with her on the stage, was one of the most incredible moments in my memory.
@Jeffrey Hinkel go cry somewhere. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌💕
Yes indeed ♥️
@Jeffrey Hinkel are you sad that orange man lost? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You must have a very, very short memory. As short as Biden's memory, or worse.
@@minkkflow Do you ever say anything else? You literally paste the same thing on every comment you disagree with. How lazy.
Wow..wow..wow am not American but folks I watched it like 100 times. This will go down in history as one of the most memorable moments in presidential inaugurations. So powerful
No
@@apollothemoonman632 Yes.
@@apollothemoonman632 go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌💕
@@apollothemoonman632 I know your one of those trolls trying to get people to be angry at your comments to get a reaction so like be salty somewhere else will you.....
It’s already has!!!
I could listen to her read out my maths questions from my textbook and I would still be mesmerised by her voice.
I really love this video more every time I watch it. Every line is rich and fills me with hope. I love how she says she descended from a slave but now she can even be president. She inspired me to start my channel.
She overcame her speech impediment!!! Just 2 years ago she struggled to say her R's, and now she is just mesmerizing. So great!
I couldn't tell.
Very interesting as President Biden also stuttered.
If you watch her interviews from a couple years ago you can hear her speech is different. She's worked so hard to overcome it. Such a talent!!
Don't look at just the performance listen to the content too just wow
As a grown-ass man, I can proudly say this brought tears to my eyes
Well , me too brother .... in tears and grown ass as can be
Sounds like something Patrick would say
It moves hearts because it speaks to the truth we all want but may not know how to find again as Americans. It’s never about a person but the people.
A grown ass man still rocking a patrick star profile picture is what brings tears to my eyes. Have a good life, brother.
Me too !
🥔 Honestly, I enjoyed this poem and performance. It's sad how much negativity is shown in these comments. Regardless of whether you like this or not, I hope you guys all have a good year! 🥔
The haters are all Trump supporters, they'll do anything to criticize the left even if it means making fun of someone's inability.
@@anthonypritchard2798 Wrong. I never supported Trump, I do however have taste in poetry that prevents me from considering this as anything but amateurish propaganda.
@@FungusMossGnosis Propaganda of what?
i'm surprised the trolls are even on a poetry video... that's like... literacy
This makes me choke up every time. I listen to it to feel hope and it never fails to give me that. I am so grateful for 2017 Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.
Same here 4 December 2022 there is hope 🙏 in this world if we have more people like Amanda Gorman we will be fine but divisions and hatred by and negatives my Mega and trump Tyring to divide a beautiful nation god help us
Leafy viens there is hope 🙏
@@hkayir916 Yes indeed. We can never give up hope. It's the hardest thing to hold onto but we can't give up. Keep on shining your light my friend 🙂
@@leafyveins4985 I am glad to see a positive person in this messed up world greetings from London leafy and it is pleasure to respond back to you
Hey what a fascinating women you are I just saw your channel viva you
As a 61 old father to 2 teenage daughters I would like to sent my deep respect! This was the highlight of today´s inauguration!
As a German I had not heard about Amanda Gorman so far. My apologies for this ignorance! Luckily, like so many things today, that has now changed.
My best wishes to your country and for all your endeavors in the future, Ms. Gorman! Go for it!
Most Americans hadn’t heard of her before either!
Hope to never hear her again
This young human made me think for the 1st time in yrs, there is hope for our youth! Great comment, friend!
@@stevedenard3351 unfortunately this is probably the next president or better say "elected" dictator
@@grievingstereo8527 let go of the hate
She gets a 100! Even her outfit was perfect! Her words and look are a beacon of sunshine!
And just like that, she will forever be remembered in history...
Liebe Grüße an alle Deutschen die hier englisch Hausaufgaben machen
Grüße zurück!
Yet is is a Conundrum the same. Yet Your intention may be pure.
Maybe,.
Avsikt,?
Grüße gehen zurück xD
Jo moin
Hallo Kristian. Es scheinen wohl viele jetzt dazu Hausaufgaben zu bekommen. Kann mir da einer helfen. Für meine Tochter ;-)
She will be in the history books, that poem is going to be a permanent part of American history
Amén!
Yes, I just pre-ordered her book!
And a permanent promise for American posterity. [keeping in style...]
Ho pensato anch'io la stessa cosa. E credo che non rimarrà permanentemente solo alla storia Americana
It was a very passionate speech!
Amanda Gorman’s inaugural 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've 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 just-ice
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 a 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's 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 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
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 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 the 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-limbed hills of 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,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
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
Thank You!!
Thank you so much!!
They are all GETTING WHAT IS COMING TO THEM THEY ARE TRAPPED IN THERE THERE . TIME IS COMING SIT BACK PATRIOTS AND JUST WATCH AND HAVE FAITH WE HAVE GOD on OUR SIDE
Omg thank you for typing this, now I can take my time to memorize this beautiful amazing poem from a inspiring amazing young black beautiful and proud young woman 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Thank you !!!
This is beautiful to watch again. I cant stop watching all these with emotions, goosebumps, triumphant joy, knowing that some people had planned to destroy American's image, integrity, democracy and rule of law through insurrection...There is nothing like peace
Got English homework because of her 😂
Watching from Europe. This is the highlight from this Inauguration. Goosebumps all over me. Well done Amanda Gorman.
❤❤❤
Stay there
@@Adamn7210 “go home!”
@@Adamn7210 You don't need to ask me twice.
She peeled outta there when she was done. She could have held back a moment and taken in the praise she deserved. Humble lady. Moving poem.
I was just about to comment this, you can tell she is humble through her body language. All around incredible young woman
As someone who has done public poetry reading many times - when you're in it, you feel strong, focused, empowered. As soon as the reading's over, you're back to being a little squeaky mouse, trying to find a hole where to hide. People who like attention don't become poets or writers :D
Or maybe she just needed to pee 😆 DC in jan is cold
She is so graceful in words, gestures and presence!
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Micah 4.... Each will sit under his own fig tree.....
And the LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion
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I'm not even American and I teared up at this. How on earth does this Masterpiece have over 2k dislikes??????
Those 2K dislikes represent salty trump supporters 🤦🏾♀️
or any
2700 racists can't appreciate poetry and wisdom from a young woman of colour.
Sadly there will alway be haters. They are miserable people who will never be happy no matter what.
Yeah, that's the most plausible theory. Trump supporters just can't take the L gracefully. Sad
She stole the whole show. Made everyone else look amateur.
We need another Meryl Streep, don’t we!?
@@abulahab6528 she just confidently offered an olive branch to 75,000,000 people in good faith and sincerity.
Perhaps she should be VP next time.
@konkyolife I said the same thing. She was on 🔥!!
@@konkyolife It’s more people than that - votes were changed, stolen election- oh well, she did deliver a beautiful poem! She might lose points on the left with her name- not ethnic enough.
She's 14 and this is deep.
Thats my homework on this :(
a. Describe Gorman’s view of the past and recent past. (Mark the passages)
b. Explain which passages resonate with you (that speak to you or touch you) and
why. (Mark the passages)
c. Study Gorman’s poem to find examples of stylistic devices and other rhetorical strategies. Explain their function within the context of the poem.
CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE FOR C I HAVE TO HAND IT IN IN 4 HOURS
AND FOR B
loved to nod to “Hamilton”
“History has its eyes on us”
Yesss!
She knocked this out of the park...
She Did. As a black woman myself, as a woman, i was proud!. Damn!
She was too flowery. All the silly hand movements. I was glad when she got off stage.
@@lisabbb2324 sounds a tiny bit bitter babe it’s poetry
@Lisa bbb okay boomer
@@lisabbb2324 go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌💕
the voice of the future, a privilege to hear Amanda's words
You will not be alive to hear her again.
@@cloudydays9968 Go cry somewhere else. We’re enjoying ourselves over here. 😌
@Random Person is that a threat?
@@cloudydays9968 Which country are you from?
The voice of an activist that insists people LIKE YOU are the cause of everything wrong.
Oh, you’ll GET your future, alright.
Beautiful young woman!
I love what Amanda Gorman had to say through her beautiful poetry! 💐
May God bless you, may
God bless this world
we all must live in🌎 🌍
so beautiful and strong, so upright and clear. What a Soul!
Somewhere Maya Angelou is smiling.
♥︎
This!!!!!!!
Oh my, I thought the same ! Absolutely captivating ❤️
This comment made my night honestly - it’s just so true - you can feel her smiling
From heaven😁
I choke up every time. With pride this representation of America from her generation was/is beautiful. We need this magnificent light in all this shade like Amanda Gorman put it. Thank you Miss Gorman for beginning this movement of light. Words can move, shape, and begin change. Time to embrace difference and find a path together! I have seen more division... Right and Left, Vax and Anti-Vax inside our boarders then all my 40 yrs. Time to be brave!!!!
Spoken Ever So Eloquently. Well said Poet. Poetry is my Passion I am a Poet As Well 🙏🙏❤️
I am a poet too! I am a 13 year old, writting a poem to my mom and dad as a gift for their aniverssary and my poem is going to talk about the essensces of love and how it is important to not drown ourselves in hate while transmiting it. Their anniversary is in 21 days and Im still defining the poem´s structure and I am pretty stressed cause I have a long way but I know I can do it! Especially because Amanda inspires me a lot (in fact, my poem is inspired by "the hill we climb"!) What poem or peice are you working on?
"Quiet isn't always peace."
Yes, when things get a little too quiet, you should be attuned to trouble. I myself search for a little peace and quiet. Where peace and quiet are one and the same thing.
im sorry sweety but i myself am afraid what my anger does so i just stay quiet so i dont land in jail because of some jerks
Quiet is always Peace tho that’s the definition of peace if anything speaking out would make things temporarily less peaceful
Nothing exemplified that more than the media silence during Obama's presidency, the same silence you're going to get now.
@Reaver Red the “11,000” jobs you think were lost we’re just contractors who aren’t out of work forever, they lost one job that would have lasted about 2 weeks
Fun Fact: She is 22 years old.
Even more fun for facts is that she is also the first youngest poet laureate.
Fun fact: nobody asked
It's a fun fact but you got me thinking I'm 31 !! What have I done with my life !!
I am also 22 but I am nowhere as accomplished as she is 😭😭😭😭
yes same age as the woman who stole Pelosi's laptop
As a Swede I have to study more english. But I get tears in my eyes, and I get very angry when I see that 7273 have disliked this (2021-01-31). How can they?
It is all a lie!
@Jimmy George Sorry, I just wanted to tell that we in Europe are content that mr Biden won this election. And terrified that almost half of the american people mistrust the result. What a world are we living in?
@Jimmy George OK, I shall be quiet, but we in Europe are also following this with great interest!
As an European I think that Amerika has never been in more mistrust of each other than now. A split nation. But I know, I have not the right to have any opinions, someone of you has told me so.
She is GLOWING.
„...where a skinny black girl, descended from slaves, raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president“
I‘m looking forward to her Inauguration! :)
Can we drop the slave crap already.......
@@Kolek-sun-eater can you just shut up
@@Kolek-sun-eater the ignorance 😐
@@Kolek-sun-eater no because sadly that is our history but we need to let every generation know so we as a whole don’t let that happen again and we won’t allow history to repeat itself. So no we cannot drop the subject of slavery.
Yes, they learn about slavery in school.
They dont need to hear it from absolutely everyone.
If this doesn't give you hope .. nothing will! Thank you Amanda Gorman, my soul is full!
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She stole the show! And she's brilliant, talented and beautiful.
Amanda is amazing and inspiring! Recently started my poetry UA-cam channel and I’m so excited! I hope to be like her one day!
She shines brightly in a mostly toxic environment. Hopefully her words will not fade into background while the nation festers in the forgotten and downtrodden.
isnt this an act of racism against white people?
@@ethanmariani5152 How so? The poem was about moving forward as a nation regardless of our differences. That regardless of our hardships faced, the American people can stand strong together to build a better future for those that follow.
@@sydvicous7743 he knows that. he's a racist projecting onto a woman that's better than him.
@@witchplease9695 😂You’re right I fell for the troll bait 🤣 I love your username btw ✌️❤️🧙♀️
It won’t as long as we are brave enough to see the light and brave enough to be the light. 💜💜💜
"If we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy." ❤️ I hope that will be our legacy one day.
@Elvia Olvera wasn't that exquisite?!? 😂
*This child is so talented, and all what she said is true. I bless her with all the power God’s have giving me*
The downvotes must be from the people that got homework.
Yes, this was one of the greatest speeches I have heard at a political event.
Most likely. I think that this is the most amazing poem I have heard.
"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've 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 just-ice
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 a 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's 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 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
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 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 the 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-limbed hills of 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,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
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
Thank you for that.
💜
You have inspired me to go back into writing again thank you Amanda I Am Going to purchase your book to support you I hope and pray that one day you will be the next President!! LOVE 💘 YOU.
Thank you for sharing
Thanks 😊