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20 of the Most Empowering, Badass Verses From Beyoncé's Lemonade
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"Wicked, my spirit inspired me / Like yeah, open correctional gates in higher desert / Yeah, open our mind as we cast away oppression / Yeah, open the streets and watch our beliefs / And when they carve my name inside the concrete, I pray it forever reads, 'Freedom!'"

Song: "Freedom"

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