Our goal is never revenge, just restoration. Not dominance,… - Amanda Gorman

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Our goal is never revenge, just restoration. Not dominance, just dignity. Not fear, just freedom. Just justice.

Amanda Gorman

Call Us What We Carry · December 7, 2021 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Amanda Gorman (born 7 March 1998) is an American poet and social activist. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015, and became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. She studied sociology at Harvard College, and graduated cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received worldwide attention with her recitation of her poem "The Hill We Climb" written for the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

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Alternative Names: Amanda S. C. Gorman

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Grief, like glass, can be both a mirror & a window, enabling us to look both in & out, then & now & how. In other words, we become a window pain. Only somewhere in loss do we find the grace to gaze up & out of ourselves.

We are walking beside our ancestors,
Their drums roar for us,
Their feet stomp at our life.
There is power in being robbed
& still choosing to dance.

Trauma is like a season, deep & dependable, a force we board our windows against. Even when it passes, it will wail its wild way back to our porch.

Our goal is never revenge, just restoration. Not dominance, just dignity. Not fear, just freedom. Just justice. - Amanda Gorman

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