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Adichie features "***Flawless" in Beyoncé's Visual Album
Artist Beyoncé adds a piece of Adichie's "We Should All Be Feminists" TED Talk to her song "***Flawless." Beyoncé reaches for a message for women and their expectations in society. Beyoncé agrees with Adichie's views about gender equality and feminism. Adichie describes how marriage is viewed and taught differently for a man and a woman.
Since Beyoncé's visual album released on December 2013, Adichie's sales on her recent novel Americanah skyrocketed on Amazon according to an article on The Atlantic. Adichie is becoming more known for her novels by featuring this song.
Lyrics
"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 girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?
We raise girls to see each other as competitors.
Not for jobs or for accomplishments which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.
We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.
Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes."
"We Should All be Feminists" TED Talk
"At some point I was a happy African feminist who does not hate men and who likes lip gloss and who wears high-heels for herself but not for men."
Powerful TED Talk: "The Danger of a Single Story"
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