Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman Instagram – Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy, and the place I have in remembering that legacy as a Black woman and poet. When I stepped to the podium at the Capitol Building, I did so looking out in the bright distance at the Lincoln Memorial, where Dr. King had recited his renowned I Have a Dream Speech. An odd, exhilarating feeling I still can’t describe took over me as I looked up and out on that fateful January day that changed my life—I felt rooted in that history of our nation, empowered by that shared vision unity, hope, and justice for humanity. I was blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if anything, it proved to me that we honor King’s dream, by daring to dream big, and by, most importantly, daring to dream together. Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. Live today, and the days to come, as a promise: the work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us. What a worthwhile, powerful calling only we can answer. Here with you in the hill and the climb, and whatever light lies beyond, whatever light lies within.
-Amanda | Posted on 21/Jan/2025 00:29:24