“A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.” 

“I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.”

“My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It’s really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.”

“I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.”

“It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.”

“Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don’t change?”

“Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?”

“Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.”

We salute a provocatuer, an artist, a mother, a woman who is constantly evolving her luminous style whilst on a mission to empower women everywhere with her brand of feminism. Queen Bey, indeed. We are totally inspired!

Haunted director: Jonas Åkerlund

Why Don't You Love Me director: Melina Matsoukas

(Who Run The World) Girls director: Francis Lawrence

All quotes by Beyoncé