THE BEYONCE, CHIMAMANDA COMBO- “FLAWLESS”

Flawless is an inspirational song for women which is included in Beyonce’s recently released self-titled album. ‘Beyonce’ which was released on iTunes on Thursday, December 12^th is Singer, Beyonce’s  5^th solo album and features 31tracks, 14 of which are new songs. The album also features track collaborations with Justin Timberlake, Kelly Rowland , Drake and Jay Z.

In ‘Flawless’, Queen B includes a portion of the award winning author’s speech about feminism and roles women play in the society.

Below, are the lyrics (speech) to the song

“We teach girls to shrink themselves

To make themselves smaller

We say to girls

“You can have ambition

But not too much

You should aim to be successful

But not too successful

Otherwise you will threaten the man”

Because I am female

I am expected to aspire to marriage

I am expected to make my life choices

Always keeping in mind that

Marriage is the most important

Now marriage can be a source of

Joy and love and mutual support

But why do we teach aspire to marriage

And we don’t teach boys the same?

We raise girls to each other as competitors

Not for jokes or for accomplishments

But for the attention of men

We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings

In the ways that boys are

Feminist- the person who believes in the social

Political, and economic equality of the sexes”

Great speech coming from a great mind… Thanks Queen B for pointing that out!