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TIME revealed its annual 2019 TIME 100 list and none other than Michelle Obama is featured with a heartfelt message from everybody’s bestie Beyonce.
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The issue has six worldwide covers, each highlighting a member of the TIME 100: Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, Dwayne Johnson, Sandra Oh, Gayle King and Mohamed Salah.
There are some pretty interesting pair-ups of guest contributors like Beyonce who opens up about Obama and others like Warren Buffett who has much to say about LeBron James’ greatness.
Here are some highlights:
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter on Michelle Obama: “She would’ve been impactful simply by being in the White House, the first African-American First Lady. But she also used her position of power to improve the world around her… She has continued to open herself up, even if it meant being criticized. She has continued to be a portrait of grace. I am so grateful that my daughters and my son live in a world where Michelle Obama shines as a beacon of hope who inspires all of us to do better and to be better.”
Ava DuVernay on Gayle King: “Gayle King, Journalist…. What most don’t understand about Gayle is that this perfected proximity to others is a superpower that the best journalists possess…. [T]he fact that this year, she is being lauded as one of the all-time great broadcast interviewers, is simply the perfect signifier a few decades overdue.”
Warren Buffett on LeBron James: “LeBron has justified the adulation of millions and millions of young people, thanks to his ability to live up to enormous expectations on the basketball court, his business successes in Hollywood and media, and his new I Promise School for disadvantaged kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. That adulation will make a positive difference in their lives…. [Y]ou’re just seeing the start of LeBron.”
Kamala Harris on Christine Blasey Ford: “Her story, spoken while holding back tears, shook Washington and the country. Her courage, in the face of those who wished to silence her, galvanized Americans. And her unfathomable sacrifice, out of a sense of civic duty, shined a spotlight on the way we treat survivors of sexual violence…. [T]hrough her courage, she forced the country to reckon with an issue that has too often been ignored and kept in the dark.”
Stacey Abrams on Desmond Meade: “Homeless and suicidal, with a felony record, Desmond fought to graduate with a law degree. When he learned he could not vote for his own wife, a candidate for the state legislature, he became president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and led the charge to adopt a constitutional amendment to re-enfranchise Floridians with felonies…. It was the largest expansion of voting rights in a half-century, and Desmond made it happen.”
Tarana Burke on dream hampton: “[A]fter the release of her reckoning documentary Surviving R. Kelly, it’s even more clear that dream’s work has always been about capturing our black magic, in all of its complexity, so that we might see ourselves clearly. During filming, I was touched by her tender approach to the survivors. She made sure we heard their voices unfiltered. For dream, this was not the kind of entertainment where a viewer can sit back and forget about themselves. She challenges a culture that assumes we are all bystanders watching a forest fire and instead places us squarely inside of the flames. At her core, dream hampton is a community organizer from Detroit alerting us all to a crisis and that we have a role in solving it. Because she believes that we can.”
Viola Davis on Regina King: “I think she’s excited for her growth as an actor but also the other side: being a director, being a leader, having a production company. Because that changes the game: the power of what’s on the page is going to change how people of color and women are seen in the business.”
Jordan Peele on Spike Lee: “Spike Lee can’t be described in a single word. I might struggle to do it in 200. He’s a visionary, a trailblazer, a provocateur and a true American original. He’s made more than two dozen films across nearly every genre, and all of them have been completely different. But to me, the common thread across his career may be his impeccable timing—his ability to understand the cultural landscape of the moment and deliver a spot-on message.”
THE COMPLETE 2019 TIME 100 LIST:
Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Loujain al-Hathloul, activist
Mahershala Ali, actor
Radhya Almutawakel, activist
Mukesh Ambani, chairman and CEO, Reliance Industries Limited
Yalitza Aparicio, actor
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
William Barr, U.S. Attorney General
Christine Blasey Ford, professor
Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil
Massimo Bottura, chef, restaurateur
Adam Bowen, co-founder, Juul
BTS, boy band
Emilia Clarke, actor
Glenn Close, actor
Emily Comer and Jay O’Neal, teacher, activist
Shep Doeleman, astrophysicist
Mirian G., anonymous asylum seeker, activist
Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines, co-owners, Magnolia Homes
Jeanne Gang, architect
Jane Goodall, conservationist
Ariana Grande, singer
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, co-executive director, Indivisible
Grainne Griffin, Orla O’Connor, and Ailbhe Smyth, co-director, Together for Yes
Juan Guaidó, President of Venezuela
Menaka Guruswamy, lawyer
dream hampton, filmmaker
He Jiankui, biophysics researcher
Marillyn Hewson, CEO, Lockheed Martin
David Hockney, painter
Luchita Hurtado, painter
Jennifer Hyman, CEO, Rent the Runway
Bob Iger, CEO, The Walt Disney Company
Marlon James, author
LeBron James, basketball player
Dwayne Johnson, actor
Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
Arundhati Katju, lawyer
Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Khalid, musician
Imran Kahn, Prime Minister of Pakistan
Gayle King, journalist, host, CBS This Morning
Regina King, actor
Lady Gaga, actor, musician
Brie Larson, actor
Aileen Lee, founder, Cowboy Ventures
Hoesung Lee, economist, chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Spike Lee, director
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico
Richard Madden, actor
Rami Malek, actor
Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Pat McGrath, makeup artist
Desmond Meade, executive director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Hasan Minhaj, comedian
Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
James Monsees, co-founder, Juul
Indya Moore, actor, model
Alex Morgan, soccer player
Robert Mueller, Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice
Ryan Murphy, director, producer
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
Ninja, professional gamer
Samin Nosrat, chef, food writer
Lynn Nottage, playwright
Michelle Obama, author
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, congressman
Sandra Oh, actor
Naomi Osaka, tennis player
Ozuna, musician
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Pierpaolo Piccioli, designer, creative director, Valentino
Pope Francis
Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve
Barbara Rae-Venter, genetic genealogist
Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Ren Zhengfei, CEO, Huawei
Maria Ressa, CEO, Rappler
Mohamed Salah, footballer
Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy
Caster Semenya, middle-distance runner
Fred Swaniker, entrepreneur, leadership development expert
Taylor Swift, singer, song-writer
Chrissy Teigen, cookbook author
Greta Thunberg, climate activist
Donald Trump, President of the United States
Clare Waight Keller, designer, artistic director, Givenchy
Leana Wen, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Tara Westover, author
Tiger Woods, golfer
Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, General Secretary, Communist Party, China
Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE’s Armed Forces
Zhang Kejian, Director of the China National Space Administration
Zhang Yiming, CEO, ByteDance
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook