JAZMINE SULLIVAN 2022 GRAMMYs Acceptance Speech

Speaker 1: (00:00)
And the Grammy goes to Heaux Tales. Jazmine Sullivan. Where you at, girl? Pick up your hood feeling. Come on, girl. Yeah. Come on. Get your award. Get this award, girl. No, you got to hold this while you talking. You got to hold this while you talking.

Jazmine Sullivan: (00:48)
I don’t know what I heard. I almost didn’t believe it but I’m so grateful to be up here. Shout out to H.E.R. for wearing these glasses in the dark, girl. I fell like 10 times tonight. So, you the GOAT for that.

Jazmine Sullivan: (01:07)
I think that I wrote this project to deal with my own shame and unforgiveness around some of the decisions that I made in my 20s that weren’t favorable.

Speaker 3: (01:19)
Jaz, we love you.

Jazmine Sullivan: (01:22)
Thank you. But what it ended up being was a safe space for black women to tell their stories, for us to learn from each other, for us to learn from each other, laugh with each other and not be exploited at the same time. And that’s what I’m most grateful for. So, shout out to all black women who are just living their lives and being beautiful. I love you all. Thank you to everybody who helped me create Heaux Tales, to the producers, the additional writers, to RCA and Sony Music, to my management, my mother and father who I love dearly, I can’t wait to see, my friends and family, everybody back in Philly, my fans, my man, everybody. Thank you so much. I appreciate this so much.