Angelina Jolie Honors Amanda Gorman
Click to viewAngelina Jolie presented national youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman with Variety‘s Power of Women honor last night and brought daughter Zahara as her date.
“The young woman of grace, who stepped fearlessly to the podium on inauguration day. Not just the youngest but the strongest voice we could ask for in that moment. The Amanda we see today might seem as if she leapt into our times, fully formed, to summon our better angels. But there was an Amanda we didn’t see,” Jolie said.
She concluded her speech, "[there was] nothing more beautiful, more challenging and more unsettling perhaps than the free mind of the thinking woman. That is surely why so much effort is put into constraining her. Those who have the power of free speech - the weapon of free speech - must combine to defend those who do not. We need voices like Amanda’s, those lights in the dark. May you burn fiercely, and light the way for others."
Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Amanda Gorman attend Variety's Power of Women Presented by Lifetime at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on September 30, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Angie with Dr Joan Wicks, Amanda Gorman's mother:
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Bonus, Angie and Zahara with Orlando Bloom and honoree Katy Perry:
Angelina Jolie with Zahara, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom at the Variety's Power of Women event.
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