Amanda Gorman captivated the nation with her poem “The Hill We Climb.” The 22-year-old talks to Lester Holt about her journey and what influenced her words.
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Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman Discusses Her Powerful Message | NBC Nightly News
Blm is a terrorist group! Biden and Harris hate the police and love the BLM thugs
Hello
She was great👏👏👏
Dont care I want my repatriation
What a joke she is.
@Jim Szczech , we’ve already seen and heard from one gas giant for 4 years, why listen to another?
She’s not a joke.
Painful having to watch her when she doesn’t amount to much and so many idiots want to make a fuss over her.
It’s said that a young person can be successful and show there purpose without so much hate. But that means she is doing something right. Even Jesus Christ had haters. I pray she is blessed with focus, and steadfastness. And that all that come against her realize she is protected. Any hate you put on her you get back 10 fold.
Beautiful!
The Poet Laureate said ” descended from slaves.” VP Kamala Harris’ mom wasn’t. It was her dad’s ancestors, FROM JAMAICA. WHY THEN, THERE’S NO MENTION OF JAMAICA; a place where the VP spent her childhood summer holidays; at the family’s home in ST. ANN. It’s always the SOUTH ASIAN.
@Franklin Chin Quee: “ It was her dad’s ancestors, … “. Vice President Harris is the one who could provide honest explanations to why her Jamaican heritage is under-emphasized. The Poet Laureate proudly referred to her own ancestry: not that of the “ SOUTH ASAIN “
It is obviously not a secret that she is Jamaican; she never denounced that part of herself. People always searching for something to be negative about, when this feed is actually about something sooo positive.
This nation is still broken 😞 Without President Trump my heart go out to him we love you Mr. President
@Lorena Ortiz A lot of people confuse that symbol (with the arms pointing left) with the Nazi symbol (with the arms pointing right), but it’s not the Nazi symbol.
Both symbols are ancient, and it’s unfortunate that one was used as it was.
@Lorena Ortiz …why ?
@Kendra Barnes ….NBC send it out to the public so I’m entitled to be on this page
@L LKG 👎🏻👎🏻
@Lorena Ortiz Although judging by his response to me, maybe he does intend the connotation of the right-pointing symbol?
Yikes!
That was simply beautiful!
I would vote for Amanda no matter what. Her along side Greta Thunberg would do great things.
You need help!ASAP!
Uh… why?
Greta Thunberg is not American and cannot ever run for the US presidency, she is from Sweden oh and quite frankly she cannot run for the Sweden Presidency because Sweden is a monarchy.
@DoctorHver you didnt get it…but it is ok.
And that’s what’s wrong with America. Too many people voting for candidates “no matter what.” I’d love to vote for an intelligent candidate with a kind soul and the best interests of the country at heart, like this woman appears to be. But we’ll have to see who she becomes, then decide.
As for Greta, her phoney acting is way over the top, and she seems to only have her own best interests at heart.
Congratulations to her ! 👏
Proud of you my dear. From a real African to a American lady. You got this
Keep pushing at the glass ceiling, I can envision you campaigning successfully Amanda!!!
She was the highlight of the ceremony!
The beginning of a flower!
Your messages is should be for your peoples and your color that destroy 50 states during black live matter protests. The capital riots is all about against government errors.
Support The Arts America!
If she is the future of your country, you will be in good hands. There is more good than bad, you just have to find it and use it.
Fraud election , fraud president
The insane are now running the asylum–no wonder the dems love this drivel.
It was so poor it was painful!
Darkness on page full of light. The exact problem with a small minority of Americans. That is why Trumps was not re-elected, bc the majority was able to see his darkness and destruction to this country.
75 millions people don’t care who her keep walk no one listening thank you
Only If a white man says that I am white and man that’s why I am proud of it 😶😶….. Please please please don’t encourage this kind of statements.
@CS Person i wish you could understand what i said.
👏She’s going places
So brave and stunning while also being bravely stunningly
Amanda, such well spoken words from such a young person gives us all hope for the Future of our Country. ThankYou!!!
Wow, just freaking wow. What a gem.
Awesome! 1-love♡♡
Amanda has lifted the hearts of America she has stolen the hearts of the world.
A star is born.
Great job.
Very special woman
Amanda, not only were you inspiring the younger generation who were watching you on inauguration day, you were inspiring so many of your new fans from older generations. Historic! Thank you so very much.
About Mr. Biden’s incompetence.
Mr. Biden said he would raise the minimum wage to $ 15.
However, it has been implemented in many countries, including South Korea.
But it failed. The reason is that it puts pressure on the management of small and medium-sized enterprises.
In South Korea, the president thought that there were many small business owners and they occupied the wealthy class.
In South Korea, the president raised the minimum wage, putting pressure on the middle class and causing most small businesses to go bankrupt.
As a result, in South Korea, factories that manufacture mechanical parts went bankrupt.
Now, in South Korea, large companies are in trouble. Because they cannot manufacture machine parts.
Raising the minimum wage thus drives the manufacturing industry into bankruptcy and annoys large corporations.
And this policy will create a large number of unemployed people . And they receive livelihood protection.
Therefore, this policy is an incompetent policy.
This proved Mr. Biden’s incompetence.
Amazing!
While this is truly American exceptionalism at it’s finest, I have to say this young lady spoke for the world! Absolutely amazing. Bravo!
It is painful that a “poem” this mediocre was elevated to the level of being given during a presidential inauguration. Seriously, I am a math major and I have written English papers much better then this. It’s also a bit disgusting that they obviously wouldn’t have put her up on the podium had she been white. THIS BLACK PRIVILAGE IS particularly repulsive since it is PURE RACISM as well. And on top of this she has to cover her face with makeup and stick so many artificial things in her hair and ears – she can’t just be who she is like I am? This video is hard to stomach…
@Steven Frisch Steven what you need to understand is that you direct your anger towards people that just want the simple things that you do. Black people are still the ones who being killed by the same people that are suppose to protect the innocent as well as the guilty. Just like I do as a health care professional. Even ones that are escorted in cuff of ALL races. My job is to save lives. If you honestly look at situations that most minorities find themselves in, you should be happy not to be one. Unfortunately, most are unable to put themselves in others shoes. They always THINK the grass is greener on the other side. Would you like to be a black person, even worse a black lesbian woman? If you feel like you are being treated badly now, be that person. You would run back to your skin and life with a lot more gratitude. The problem is that some people only can focus on what is not going right in their own life, instead of seeing how YOUR choices might have had alot to do with why your life is the way that it is. Guilt from white people with a moral compass are trying to make things more fair for a people that have been mistreated in this country for ages due to greed from free labor and also ignorance. We are not animals. We are human just like YOU who are trying to at least be treated fairly and given the same opportunities as you. Only the selfish and racist would disagree with that in my opinion.
@Kendra Barnes No anger; I am stating it as it is.
@Steven Frisch could you please explain why you are so sickened by the message?
@Steven Frisch Why do you care what she look like more than the message? What is your problem with the message?
Amanda Gorman, a well done job, outstanding performance, beautiful poet, you have touch the American Heart. Keep up the great work. May God Bless Continue To Bless You In Your future To Come
Mr. Biden says he will implement the New Green Deal policy as well as the Obama administration.
However, in many countries, including Europe, which is implementing the New Green Deal policy, winter power shortages are becoming more pronounced.
Winters are dry, sunny and windy.
Therefore, solar power is the best, and wind power is also the best.
However, if you are trapped in the snow, you will not be able to move at all.
The electric car stopped because it couldn’t replenish electricity.
All the cars running behind the electric car have stopped.
The highway stopped and didn’t move for days.
Also, when the chills are at their peak, heating is needed. Power generation is required.
With thermal power generation and nuclear power generation, reserve power can be generated. However, solar power generation and wind power generation cannot generate standby power.
There were a series of power outages. The heating has stopped. Many areas have had power outages. The countries have built natural gas-fired power plants.
Along the highway, we built a charging facility to replenish electricity.
Therefore, this policy is wasteful and useless.
This proves Mr. Biden’s uselessness.
Wonderful speech and talent sweet heart smart girl. Well done
Not impressed. Hope she finds a real job….poor thing.
Her message was clear and poignant. I am impressed with the wisdom of such a young girl, and her eloquence in expressing that message. You just let me know that you are probably the inspiration for her message.
what a beautiful young woman.
Your black and proud that’s great I’m white and proud too
You have no reason not to be, that’s the point.
@CS Person explain how
I’m black-I’m female, and I’m proud of it. 🌹
Who said that you shouldn’t be proud to be yourself?
I’m bisque-internet troll, and proud of it. 😬
I WAS QUOTING HER! I’m a 60 year old Irish woman…lol. Did you guys listen to the video?!
@MG 44 tldr
I saw her, and I was thinking “she can’t be over 17” she’s a baby!
But she’s a brilliant young woman and her poem was beautiful, it was breathtaking.
Brilliance, with the poetry, but far beyond that too.
Pelosi and Schumer could learn from her. They have been disrespectful of our future because they are capitalistic corporate owned sell outs that take big money. As a reminder from this Boomer that our founders were this age when they created our country. You better listen it you will go down in history as a trumper too!
she is a natural speaker
Hitler Hated ARTS especially writing, POETRY, etc; Yes, ( yet , Know this…) culture shall endure bullying, even bullets!! (Police Brutality, a knee at the Neck…!)
When THEY go low🦨, WE go high 💙.
And a message to TED CRUZ: “NO LIE CAN LIVE FOREVER “ !!
She made me cry OMG 😭
She is on her journey she just beginning to see her future in front of her she will be a great poet a great speaker and one day she might run for president one day I know her mom is so proud of her enjoy your journey
❤️
China is economically invading developing countries through neocolonialism.
In developing countries, economic collapse has occurred and economic refugees are occurring.
Many refugees have been generated by this refugee and the coup led by China.
This refugee is rushing to Europe and the United States.
The world must stop China’s neocolonialism.
But Mr.Biden isn’t trying to stop China’s violence.
President Obama’s globalization and China-focused policies, China strengthened its military and economic power and its political voice.
And in naval power, China has surpassed the United States.
Mr. Biden is trying to shift to a policy that emphasizes China.
It hasn’t happened yet.
The most powerful part of the interview was edited out of this yt clip.
Posted here, explaining that her words, after Jan6 carried the need to
reSanctify, rePurify this space which had been violated:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=479027969770668
Basically , Gorman’s regurgitating James Brown’s 1968 ” Say it Loud , I’m Black I’m proud .” Yawn … Want Poetry ? Read Rimbaud’s Illuminations , William Blake’ s ” Innocence & Experience ” or John Ashbery’s ” Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror ” . Gorman was ONLY there because she’s Black and a Woman . She writes poems , she is NOT a poet .
Some people live in shade and dungeons, and that is where you need to stay, bc you are obviously lacking what America needs at this moment out of hate. Find your happiness, so you can let the hate go.
Some of you STILL buying guns? The Absurdity of it all, when the power resides in one’s INTELLECT..!
@Kendra Barnes It will take more than ‘slam poetry’ to resolve America’s problems.
@Harry Callahan Words matter…our last President has definitely illuminated that fact. I believe if people would actually open their hearts and minds to the hope and vision expressed in her poem, then the world could improve. It is a message of unity and bridging gaps, which is easy if we do everything with love instead of hate. Greed is hate, racism is hate, sexism is hate…stop sowing division and build bridges. That’s what will continue to make America a great place for all people.
Wow!! What can I say?? I think, EVERYONE, that Amanda Gorman might ONE DAY be our future President of the United States!! So proud of her!!!
She said she would like to run for President in 2036. By that time we will either all be dead from Coronavirus, or she will have become a Republican.
@Will Burges Keep taking the tablets 🙂
Great interview ur special 👍 a gem 💎
NBc news great
Thank you for your brilliance and saying the words that we ALL need to hear! So eloquently stated. Now I have the words to express to all my coworkers that truly do not understand the harm and devolution of Trump presidency without just sounding like a “democrat.”
She is not an atypical daughter of an inner city low income single mother. Somehow she managed to go to a private school in Santa Monica with tuition fees of $34K to $42K pa. How are poor kids, regardless of their ethnicity, supposed to afford an education like that in her vision of the New World? Poverty in the USA is shameful, and it’s getting worse.
@CS Person I’m not interested in sanctimonious platitudes delivered by a privileged upstart. I’m more interested in the policies Biden will put forward to deal with the disgraceful levels of poverty, drug addiction, unemployment and ignorance in what is supposed to be one of the richest countries in the world.
The American Poet/Black Woman :
“Again,I rise…”
It’s beautiful to see her not give up. Never give up! Stay strong everyone.
Government, celebrities, radio ECT watch you through tv screen, phone, electrctonics not camera. They have ear pieces and watch you live at home and have inside jokes changing words and characters on tv shows ECT. They have now been equipped with radar technology that can read your thoughts using them to harm you. It goes in your home, public,. They listen to your phone on or off for years back.
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I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
( Anne Frank murdererd by Nazis 1944)
This just illustrates the insincerity of the Democratic party. She is not an atypical daughter of an inner city low income single mother. Somehow she managed to go to a private school in Santa Monica with tuition fees of $34K to $42K pa. How are poor kids, regardless of their ethnicity, supposed to afford an education like that in her vision of the New World? It would have meant more if they found someone who went to a State School in the Projects.
@Harry Callahan I guess you used Lady Gaga because she is white, and to illustrate that your dissent is not due to bias. Well the problem with your rationale for me is that you believe that someone with “privilege” is not worth listening to without regards to the actually content of the message. I wish all the Trump supporters felt that way. We wouldn’t have all the chaos we are having today. In addition, there is no way a single black mother raising children alone in a poor area of california, would create a privileged child in America. But I digress, the point is what is the problem with the MESSAGE?
@Harry Callahan The girl is from Los Angeles and her mother was a teacher. I don’t know why that matters, but I guess it would to someone that tries their best to find an excuse other than, ” I love and miss Trump” to not like her message of unity AND patriotic pride.
Election was stolen !!! DemocRats & Biden are traitors and Chinese Communist Party’ dogs
A future President
#AmandaGorman, I could listen to her all day!!! She has a twin….#HarvardGrad so amazing
No more white privilege!😀😀😀
I could have done without it. Tuned out immediately. Idc!
haley was up at the shops today working 50 million different jobs as different people the world population of females is very low
AND JUST THINK 🤔! SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY VERY POWERFUL MEN & WOMEN…
So foolish
wow wow amazing 👍👍
STiL TheOne has a poetry channel and her stuff is good