Amanda Gorman Quotes

Amanda S. C. Gorman

Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. (Amanda Gorman Quotes)

“Being American is more than a pride we inherit; it’s the past we step into and how we repair it.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“For there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

“If we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all of the bridges we’ve made. That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare it. ”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“If we’re to live up to our own time,
then victory won’t lie in the blade.
But in all the bridges we’ve made,
that is the promise to glade,
the hill we climb.
If only we dare.
It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
it’s the past we step into
and how we repair it.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: that even as we grieved, we grew. That even as we hurt, we hoped. That even as we tire, we try.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“Our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“Poetry is an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said.”

“Quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“So while once we asked how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe, now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t broken
but simply unfinished. . .
And yes we are far from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn’t mean we are
striving to form a union that is perfect
We are striving to forge a union with purpose.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.”

“The norms and notions of what “just is’ isn’t always “justice”.”

“There is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to BE it.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“There is always light—if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“We are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. We are striving to forge our union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man. And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We seek harm to none, and harmony for all.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“We are striving to forge our union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man, and so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.” (Amanda Gorman Quotes)
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“We know our inaction and inertia
will be the inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“We lay down our arms
so we can reach out our arms
to one another
We seek harm to none and harmony for all
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.”
Amanda Gorman
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 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 justice.
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 reciting for one.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid.
The new dawn balloons as we free it.
For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.
If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb

“While we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. This is the era of just redemption. We feared in its inception, we did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour, but within it we found the power to author a new chapter.”
Amanda Gorman
The Hill We Climb