Amanda Gorman

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"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 new dawn blooms 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

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

- Amanda Gorman

"Just as we chose to go to the Moon, we know it's never too soon to choose hope."

- Amanda Gorman

"We will not march back to what was. We move to what shall be, a country that is bruised, but whole. Benevolent, but bold. Fierce and free."

- Amanda Gorman

"That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare it, 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 new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is only light if we are brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"I’m learning that ‘No’ is a complete sentence. And I am reminding myself that this isn’t a competition. It’s me following the trajectory of the life I was meant to lead."

- Amanda Gorman

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

""There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.""

- Amanda Gorman

"When day comes we step out of the shade / Aflame and unafraid / The new dawn blooms 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

"We are celebrating African American liberty, but a liberty that has typically come delayed, a liberty that was not promised, but something that we continuously have to fight for...including today."

- Amanda Gorman

"Just as we chose to go to the moon, we know it’s never too soon to choose hope."

- Amanda Gorman

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

"The only approval you need is your own."

- Amanda Gorman

"That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare it, because being American is more than a pride we inherit—It's the past we step into, and how we repair it."

- Amanda Gorman

"I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me."

- Amanda Gorman

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Anxiety is a living body / Poised beside us like a shadow. / It is the last creature standing, / The only beast who loves us / Enough to stay."

- Amanda Gorman

"There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"We seek harm to none and harmony for all."

- Amanda Gorman