{"id":11929,"date":"2017-02-13T03:58:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T03:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2017-02-13T04:12:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T04:12:05","slug":"jennifer-lopez-gets-real-voices-needed-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=11929","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez Gets Real: “Our Voices Are Needed More Than Ever”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before presenting the Grammy award for best new artist of the year, <\/span>Jennifer Lopez <\/span>wowed the crowd with an important quote from the past. Yeah, she had us applauding when we first saw her <\/span>stunning Ralph & Russo gown on the red carpet, and what she said about <\/span>her relationship with Drake <\/span>had us smirking, but it’s her quote about the importance of music that really got us out of our seats.<\/p>\n

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“I will never forget my first Grammy nomination, or the dress I wore that night,” she addressed the crowd jokingly. “But this night is not about dresses, or even awards, it’s about music, the words and the voices. How they move us and inspire us and touch all of our lives. At this particular point in history, our voices are needed more than ever.”<\/p>\n

Jennifer then quoted Toni Morrison’s powerful words from her essay <\/span>No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear, as Morrison wrote and the singer quoted, “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”<\/p>\n

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