If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

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Since the world is round There is no way to walk away From each other, for even then We are coming back together. ― Amanda Gorman

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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

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We were told to never use I when writing, because eliminating this voice makes arguments legitimate. But we realize there is nothing that convinces like the self does - our life, our body & its beating, proving it's own jagged point. Tell me what is more powerful than the unerased. ― Amanda Gorman,

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That is the promised 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

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War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength.

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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

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“It’s said that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is this: a vine that sneaks up a tree, killing not by poison, but by blocking out its light. ― Amanda Gorman

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