"Vice President Harris wasn’t the only Black woman to break ground on Inauguration Day." What moves the heart and mind like a talent so deep?

So inspiring. “We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one,” Gorman wrote. “There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

“She also shared the distinction with another Black poet, Maya Angelou, whose “On the Pulse of Morning” stirred the crowd at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. Ahead of the event, media mogul and Angelou friend Oprah Winfrey gave Gorman a pair of earrings and a caged bird ring, a reference to the late Angelou’s signature work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Winfrey had also given Angelou gifts, a blue Chanel coat and a pair of gloves, to wear at her inauguration appearance. “I have never been prouder to see a woman rise,” Winfrey wrote on her Instagram account. “Maya Angelou is cheering — and so am I.” In 2017, Gorman became the first National Youth poet laureate. The Harvard graduate plans to release a children’s book of poems later this year.”

By reciting the poem, Gorman joined the ranks of inaugural poets including Robert Frost, Miller Williams, Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander. She also shared the distinction with another Black poet, Maya Angelou, whose “On the Pulse of Morning” stirred the crowd at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. Ahead of the event, media mogul and Angelou friend Oprah Winfrey gave Gorman a pair of earrings and a caged bird ring, a reference to the late Angelou’s signature work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”

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