AMANDA GORMAN: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/amanda-gormans-inauguration-poem-the-hill-we-climb/ Did I resent that she was an Ivy Leaguer---did it sound too cliche? A bit...and then my knee-jerk reaction gave way to the larger picture of what Miss Gorman means for us all-A young dynamic woman of color on a national podium!!!!!! And what words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ‘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 reci
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