Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama discussed Black art, activism and the pressures of being Black women in the spotlight as part of a candid conversation published Thursday in @Time magazine. ⁠ ⁠ During the interview, in which the former first lady posed questions to the country’s first national youth poet laureate, Obama said that she was proud of Gorman for the way in which she delivered her widely praised poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at the inauguration ceremony for President Joe Biden on Jan. 20. ⁠ ⁠ Gorman, 22, is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.⁠ ⁠ “The power of your words blew me away ― but it was more than that,” Obama said. “It was your presence onstage, the confidence you exuded as a young Black woman helping to turn the page to a more hopeful chapter in American leadership.”⁠ ⁠ Elsewhere in their conversation, Obama asked Gorman how she was handling the pressures that come with garnering such international acclaim for her inaugural poem. ⁠ ⁠ “I know a thing or two about having that kind of pressure put on you, and it isn’t always easy,” Obama said. ⁠ ⁠ Gorman noted that as Black women, they are both held to higher standards due to the “politics of respectability.”⁠ ⁠ “Despite our best attempts, we are criticized for never being put-together enough, but when we do, we’re too showy,” Gorman said. “We’re always walking this really tentative line of who we are and what the public sees us as. I’m handling it day by day. 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.”⁠ ⁠ Obama and Gorman discussed “impostor syndrome,” in which people doubt themselves despite their own significant achievements. ⁠ ⁠ Gorman noted that as a Black woman ― and as a Black woman who had a speech impediment ― she has often asked herself, “Is the content of what I’m saying good enough?” Read more at our link in bio. // 📝 Kimberley Richards // 📷 Getty Images」2月5日 9時05分