“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)

Rihanna · 9 Oct 2019

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Music is a way of speaking to the world in code, and an artist's other ventures flourish on top of it

Their wordsMusic is, like, speaking in code to the world, where they get it. It’s the weird language that connects me to them. Me the designer, me the woman who creates makeup and lingerie—it all started with music. It was my first pen pal–ship to the world. To cut that off is to cut my communication off. All of these other things flourish on top of that foundation.
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Performing at the Super Bowl halftime show would have been selling out, enabling an organization whose conduct is objectionable

Their wordsI couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people. I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler. There’s things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.
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Mass murder with legally bought weapons of war should never be normal, and classing such attacks differently by the attackers’ skin colour is racist

Their wordsPeople are being murdered by war weapons that they legally purchase. This is just not normal. That should never, ever be normal. And the fact that it’s classified as something different because of the color of their skin? It’s a slap in the face. It’s completely racist.
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President Trump would not have called the same attack by an Arab man a mental-health problem

Their wordsPut an Arab man with that same weapon in that same Walmart and there is no way that Trump would sit there and address it publicly as a mental health problem.
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America stands for immigrants

Their wordsWhat does America stand for? A bunch of immigrants.
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Seeing what is wrong in the world, rather than living in a bubble, pushes people to want to be a light in it

Their wordsIt’s easy when you think everything is going really well and perfect. When everything is flowers and butterflies and you’re in your own bubble and your own world. But to see it, to know it’s happening—it pushes you to want to be the light in the world.

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