Angelina Jolie pays heartfelt tribute to poet Amanda Gorman

As Variety.com reports, Angelina Jolie struck a poignant and powerful melody while presenting the Variety Power of Women honor to National Young Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman on Thursday night. Jolie-Pitt, to hand the honor to Gorman – the poet who enthralled the nation at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in January.

“Young lady of grace, who took the stage fearlessly on opening day. Not only the smallest but the strongest voice we could have asked for in that moment. The Amanda we see today may seem like she is our Fully formed in time, to call upon our better angels. But there was an Amanda we didn’t see,” Jolie said.

“A little girl with a speech impediment. In her own words, ‘a buck-toothed, kinky-haired, speech-distorted 7-year-old.’ Scribbling in your journal on the school bus and park bench. Wrestling with language, figuring out meanings and rhymes, inventing your own dictionary. All those hours of thought and creation made the indefatigable woman you see today ,” said Jolie.

Jolie lauded Gorman’s ability to improvise his words in deep solitude and express them in the majority, saying that if anyone can “bring people to the streets” with his words in this immediate moment, it is Gorman.

Jolie added, “Amanda, as well as celebrating your extraordinary achievements, we honor your 7-year-old and every other girl who feels like she’s an outsider, let alone when she’s just on her own.” coming into you.” “So many girls have derailed their progress in life—by poverty, rejected words, clenched fists, or gun-steel. How many Amandas are living in Afghanistan, hiding their magazines, to see Waiting for whether they will be allowed to go to school? As if one has the right to decide what a woman can or cannot do with her mind and body.”

Jolie, who walked the carpet with Gorman and Zahra, commented, “There was perhaps nothing more beautiful, more challenging, and more volatile than the free mind of a woman who thinks. Surely so much effort would have gone to her to constrain her.” Is.”

After a thunderous applause on that note, Jolie concluded by saying: “Those who have the power of free speech – the weapon of free speech – must combine to protect those who don’t. We sound like Amanda. I want light in the dark.. You keep burning fiercely and pave the way for others.