Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie.Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Lifetime
Angelina Jolieand her daughterZaharahad a mother-daughter night out at an event celebrating female change-makers.
The mother-daughter duo was attached at the hip while walking the carpet together.
Zahara — who is one of six kids Jolie is mom to —kept her arm wrapped around her mother’s waist as Jolie kept her arm over her daughter’s shoulders.
They shared many hugs and smiles ahead of the dinner, where Jolie gave a speech praising poetAmanda Gormanfor giving a voice to women at such a young age.
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Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Gorman, 23, who garnerednational attention and fameafterreading her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inaugurationof PresidentJoe Bidenand Vice PresidentKamala Harrisearlier this year, joined Jolie and Zahara on the carpet for a few photos.
The actress posed with one arm around her daughter and one arm around Gorman, who wore a hot pink floor-length gown to the event. Zahara and Gorman happened to have matching twist hairstyles.
Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie.Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
“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.
The actress and humanitarian reflected on Gorman’s formative years when she struggled with a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder, which made her turn to journaling when she was alone.
“As well as celebrating your extraordinary achievements, Amanda, we honor 7-year-old you and every other girl who feels she is an outsider, alone, when she is simply coming into her own,” Jolie said during the speech.
Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Amanda Gorman.Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Variety
“There is 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,” Jolie said, addressing Gorman.
“Those who have the power of free speech — theweaponof free speech — must combine to defend those who do not. We need voices like Amanda’s, those lights in the dark,” the actress concluded her speech. “Amanda, may you burn fiercely and light the way for others.”
Angelina Jolie and Amanda Gorman.Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Lifetime
Gormanspoke to PEOPLEin March for the issue spotlightingWomen Changing the Worldand discussed the power words have had in her life — especially in times she felt silenced.
“I spent a lifetime thinking about the power of language, and what it feels like when that power is withheld from you,” Gorman said. “There are memories in my mind in which I recognize that my voice was being othered — being asked from a young age, ‘Where are you from?’ and, ‘You talk funny.’ People were so incessant on trying to pin down why I was different from them.”
She continued, “Now I realized that perhaps my path will be a different one, that it might be performing my poetry and touching people that way, and then entering public office from a platform that was built off of my beliefs and thoughts and ideas.”
“Often we talk about the world being in our hands,” she told PEOPLE. “But Ocean Vuong has a great quotation: ‘The world is in our mouth.’ "
source: people.com
