We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

I think that fear came from, "Okay, I'm going to have Beyoncé in the title, and people are just going to think, it's Beyoncé poems. It's light and fun." I was kind of super-conscious of that. It's kind of like this weird trick I'm playing, where you're like, "What an interesting, fun cover, and then the name Beyoncé." Then you open it, and it's just about my depression. All of it belongs together.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

I guess the only thing I'd say is it ['There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] shouldn't be read as "Beyoncé is not beautiful."