After pulling off a jaw-dropping performance that had everyone on their feet, Queen Bey yet again stole the show when she walked onto the stage to receive her award for Best Urban Contemporary at the Grammys in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Dressed in the same golden dress and veil she’d performed with, Beyonce explained the reasoning behind the Lemonade album, which had been intended to give a voice of hope.
Holding up a regal golden slip of paper, she read out the moving speech:
‘Thank you to the Grammy voters for this incredible honor. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to beautifully capture the profundity of deep Southern culture.
‘I thank God for my family, my wonderful husband, my beautiful daughter, my fans for bringing me so much happiness and support. We all experience pain and loss, and often we become inaudible.
‘My intention for the film and album was to create a body of work that would give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable.
‘It’s important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror — first through their own families, as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys — and see themselves.
‘And have no doubt that they’re beautiful, intelligent and capable. This is something I want for every child of every race, and I feel it’s vital that we learn from the past and recognize our tendencies to repeat our mistakes.’
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