she is every woman.

“ ‘No Scrubs’…We just couldn’t believe it. We were always on a high with it. We were thankful that we were even able to stumble across a hit like that. It’s a girl anthem.
”

Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas

'...just Beyoncé, her heels, her thighs, her leather-and-lace corset and a...romp through her songbook, ignoring most of her proven crowd-pleasers just because she's Beyoncé and Beyoncé can get away with doing whatever Beyoncé feels like doing. No "Countdown," no "Say My Name," no "Irreplaceable" or "Survivor" or "Run the World (Girls)." Yet the Queen B demonstrated why she is the great pop performer of our time, stomping and writhing in a swirl of multiple-Beyoncé holograms. So many Beyoncés onscreen—yet somehow, still nowhere near enough of them.'

Rolling Stone | Rihanna

'...Knowles is, of course, a smokeshow of rare distinction, a perfectly composed public presence, and an unusually gifted singer with a deep catalogue of chart toppers, but so are plenty of pop stars. She has become, in recent years, something more: an aspirational talisman for American women of all races. It is a small club, perhaps one whose only other members might be Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. But where Winfrey is a single career gal (on the grandest scale) and Obama has temporarily put her own career aside for her husband and kids (also on the grandest scale), Knowles has both the gangbusters career and the perfect-seeming family life. She has transformed herself into an icon of Having It All.'

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soulmahogany:

Janelle Monae & Lauryn Hill

Yaaaasssssssssss

OMG UNF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Passing the torch.

#sheiseverywoman

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ashleyindetention:

dripping-adorableness:

worshipjade:

aw

This is too cute.

Tip is so beautiful.

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Heart, Albert King, Randy Newman, Public Enemy, Rush and Donna Summer made the cut. The newly announced class of 2013 will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18 in at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

yes!

Heart, Albert King, Randy Newman, Public Enemy, Rush and Donna Summer made the cut. The newly announced class of 2013 will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18 in at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

yes!

hey! i wrote the story. #JanetJackson #sheiseverywoman

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theniftyfifties:

Lena Horne

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“ …the older black women, they kinda just write me off…it’s important for you to look at the companies…I’ve done business with and realize that every time I do a campaign and it’s…successful…we show mainstream America that black women can sell a product and that black women are influential and that we can have our own people support something that we support…that’s what I want black women to understand. I’m not asking you to love everything I do. But I’m asking you to keep it real with yourself and really see exactly what I have been doing. It’s very important that they realize these things weren’t really being done like this before Nicki Minaj.
”

Nicki Minaj

h/t Jezebel.

she is every woman.

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