Winfrey made a similar statement last week during an interview with Access Hollywood in which she rehashed her dispute about the word with Jay Z. "I believe that it should not be a part of the language and the lexicon," she said. Winfrey spoke about a coffee table book she owns that contains a searing image of a Black family witnessing a lynching while a white mob cheers on. "I always think of that family," the mogul explained. "I actually had this conversation with Jay Z, when he was saying, 'We can take the power back, we can take the power out of the word. We're changing the power.' I go, 'You will never change it for that family. You will never change it for whom it was the last word they heard when they were hung or they were dismembered or they were degraded.'"