Rihanna
Barbadian singer and businesswoman (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) who founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, Fenty Beauty in 2017 and Savage X Fenty in 2018.
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Their wordswe can only fix this world together. We can’t do it divided. I cannot emphasize that enough. We can’t let the de-sensitivity seep in. The, “If it’s your problem, then it’s not mine; It’s a woman’s problem; It’s a black people problem; It’s a poor people problem.”
↗Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020)variety.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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People with friends of other races should show up when injustice hits those friends’ communities
Their wordsI mean, how many of us in this room have colleagues and partners and friends from other races, sexes, religions? Show of hands. Well, they want to break bread with you, right? They like you? Well, then this is their problem, too. So when we’re marching and protesting and posting about the Michael Brown juniors and Atatiana Jeffersons of the World, tell your friends to pull up.
↗Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020)variety.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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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.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 1st of 6 in this piece
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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.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 2nd of 6 in this piece
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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.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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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.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 4th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsWhat does America stand for? A bunch of immigrants.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 5th of 6 in this piece
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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.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 6th of 6 in this piece
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Their wordsI have friends of all races, all skin tones, and I think it's painful to exclude anyone. Women love makeup and they should all be included.
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Anyone can be a humanitarian: it means helping one person and expecting nothing in return
Their wordsI know that each and every one of you has the opportunity to help someone else. All you need to do is help one person, expecting nothing in return. To me, that is a humanitarian.
↗Rihanna’s Harvard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year acceptance speech, Sanders Theatre, 28 February 2017, as printed in full by W Magazine (Sophie Hirsh, 1 March 2017)wmagazine.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsyou don’t have to be rich to be a humanitarian. You don’t have to be rich to help somebody. You don’t gotta be famous. You don’t even have to be college-educated.
↗Rihanna’s Harvard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year acceptance speech, Sanders Theatre, 28 February 2017, as printed in full by W Magazine (Sophie Hirsh, 1 March 2017)wmagazine.com 2nd of 2 in this piece