Rihanna looked beautiful at BET’s Black Girls Rock! event on Friday afternoon (April 1) at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
The 28-year-old singer was being honored with the Rock Star Award during the ceremony.
“Thank you so much for celebrating us in a world that doesn’t celebrate us enough,” she said onstage.
“The minute you learn to love yourself you will not want to be anybody else,” the Grammy-winning singer and fashion trendsetter added. “Role model is not the title they like to give me … (but) I think I can inspire a lot of young women to be themselves and that is half the battle.”
The Barbados-born singer also thanked her mother and grandmother for being strong black women and excellent role models.
“Hopefully one day I’ll be raising my own little black girl who rocks,” she said.
Black Girls Rock, which annually honors black women, will be televised on April 5th. In the meantime, check out photos of the event in our gallery.
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