Amanda Gorman : "The Hill We Climb"

Amanda Gorman·2021 US Presidential Inauguration

"The Hill We Climb" transcript

Using your voice is a political choice

Summary 

The speaker is the youngest inaugural poet in US history. She who was asked from the wife of Biden delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden. 

When Biden’s wife met the speaker for the first time, she wore a yellow shirt. Thus they thought that yellow must bring them luck, and chose a yellow coat this time.

Now, she is thought by many people that she might be President of the US in 2037. 

The speaker never reached here easily. She had a speech impediment, she is the daughter of black writers who broke their chain and changed the world, and she was asked by a white man that doesn’t make her poems political. It’s because people are terrified of her poems that have the phenomenal potential to connect the beliefs of the private individual with the cause of change of the public, the population, the policy, and the political movement. It’s especially her poems. Thus, she writes a story right, no matter what anyone says.