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- In the song "***Flawless," Beyoncé samples the message author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered in the TEDx talk, "We should all be feminists."
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Dec 13, 2013 · From there, Beyonce croons — with strong language that will likely be objectionable to some — on the pressure women feel to be perfect and to think of marriage as the main goal of their life. Adichie’s words come in at 1:24, and form a beautiful second verse of the song:
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- "If You Surrender To The Air, You Can Ride It" — Toni Morrison. The first quote that appears on a card in Homecoming is attributed to Morrison along with the words "Howard University 1953," which recognizes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's HBCU alma mater.
- "To Me We Are The Most Beautiful Creatures In The Whole World, Black People. And I Mean That In Every Sense." — Nina Simone. The quote that you hear legendary jazz singer/pianist Nina Simone recite in Homecoming has circulated widely in the video from above, but it's not clear where it originated.
- "Education Must Not Simply Teach Work — It Must Teach Life" —W.E.B. DuBois. The civil rights activist graduated from the HBCU Fisk University, before going on to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
- "Our Mothers And Grandmothers... Moving To Music Not Yet Written" — Alice Walker. Alice Walker, who graduated from Spelman College in 1965, wrote these words in a 1983 collection of prose called In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.
Dec 13, 2013 · The Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes a surprise appearance on Beyoncé's latest album, released on iTunes this morning, declaiming: "We teach girls to shrink themselves, to...
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Oct 7, 2016 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Doesn’t Think Beyoncé’s Feminism Is Flawless: ‘Her Style Is Not My Style’. By Jackson McHenry, a Vulture critic covering theater, film, and TV. Chimamanda...
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Jul 29, 2014 · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke to Vogue.com about her now-famous 2013 TEDx Talk, which was sampled in Beyoncé’s song “Flawless” and comes out today in eBook form. By Alex Frank July 29,...
Oct 7, 2016 · "I think the world views [Black women] differently and how things are read differently," Adichie said. "Beyoncé, so she chooses to own her sexuality and there’s somehow something bad, just...
