--- description: Beyoncé delivered a moving speech while accepting the award for Best Urban Contemporary Album for Lemonade during the 2017 Grammys title: Read Beyoncé's Grammy Award Acceptance Speech image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b995eba38b3f240/6988b9f586f68e103a6e37b7/beyonce-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [awards](/tag/awards/) ## awards Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read Beyoncé's Powerful Acceptance Speech From the Grammy Awards by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 13, 2017 3:00 AM CUT  Beyoncé accepts the award for best urban contemporary album for Lemonade at the 59th annual Grammy Awards, on Feb. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles. Beyoncé accepts the award for best urban contemporary album for Lemonade at the 59th annual Grammy Awards, on Feb. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles.Matt Sayles—Invision/AP by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Feb 13, 2017 3:00 AM CUT [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4668358/blue-ivy-carpool-karaoke-grammys-2017/ "undefined") delivered a moving speech while accepting the award for Best Urban Contemporary Album for _Lemonade_ during the [2017 Grammys](http://time.com/4668477/james-corden-grammys-opening/ "undefined"). The singer said her album intended to “confront issues that make us uncomfortable.” “It’s important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror — first through their own families, as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys — and see themselves,” she said. Read her speech in full below. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4668482/grammys-2017-beyonce-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4668482/grammys-2017-beyonce-speech/"},"headline":"Read Beyoncé's Powerful Acceptance Speech From the Grammy Awards","datePublished":"2017-02-13T03:00:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:16:54.821Z","description":"Beyoncé delivered a moving speech while accepting the award for Best Urban Contemporary Album for Lemonade during the 2017 Grammys","url":"https://time.com/4668482/grammys-2017-beyonce-speech/","keywords":["awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b995eba38b3f240/6988b9f586f68e103a6e37b7/beyonce-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8b995eba38b3f240/6988b9f586f68e103a6e37b7/beyonce-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Beyonce","caption":"Beyoncé accepts the award for best urban contemporary album for Lemonade at the 59th annual Grammy Awards, on Feb. 12, 2017 in Los Angeles.","creditText":"Matt Sayles—Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/awards/","name":"awards"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4668482/grammys-2017-beyonce-speech/","name":"Read Beyoncé's Powerful Acceptance Speech From the Grammy Awards"}}]}] ```