Showing ‘gratitude,’ poet laureate Amanda Gorman celebrates 23rd birthday two days after racial-profiling incident

Amanda Gorman celebrated her 23rd birthday by taking the high road.

The poet, who made history during President Biden’s inauguration, took to social media on Sunday to express gratitude to her fans and urge them to pay their “blessings” forward.

“Today I turn 23 1/4 ud83e 1/4 udd73 1/4 ud83c 1/4 udf89,” she began in the caption alongside a selfie of her at the U.S. Capitol for the January inauguration. “As I reflect back with gratitude on this whirlwind year that brought me to the steps of the Capitol, I can’t help but believe that the best type of gift is one that pays your blessings forward.”

“If you’ve been touched by my words, please consider donating or sharing about these wonderful nonprofits below who have supported me at critical points in my young career,” the Los Angeles native continued with links to and information about various nonprofit organizations that have helped her. “Even a dollar works magic.”

It’s an optimistic approach to someone who was racially profiled two days before.

On Friday, America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate recounted an incident involving a security guard who tailed her as she walked to her home on Friday evening.

“He demanded if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious,’” she revealed.

After showing him her keys and buzzing herself into her residence he left without offering an apology.

“This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat,” the Harvard University graduate wrote.

But instead of taking a victim of the incident, Gorman was empowered by it.

“In a sense, he was right. I AM A THREAT: a threat to injustice, to inequality, to ignorance.”

“Anyone who speaks the truth and walks with hope is an obvious and fatal danger to the powers that be,” she wrote.

The young poet, who was thrust in the limelight after reciting the powerful poem “The Hill We Climb” on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, was recently highlighted in Time magazine’s 100 Next List under the category of Phenoms, with a profile written by “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“If the hardest part of an artist’s job is to fully and honestly meet the moment, Amanda delivered a master class,” the Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning Pulitzer Prize recipient wrote. “She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves.”