I dunno why I haven't asked my folks yet if they were crying. Everyone was crying! It was so cute when I called my mom on Tuesday and she picked up the phone and said "YES WE CAN!" I am lovin' this. Barack Obama's transformative win has ignited a movement. This is much bigger than we can imagine.

Diddy cried.

"I was straight up crying. I was with my kids. It was a beautiful thing. I just thank God my prayers were answered."

Meanwhile, Cedric the Entertainer says his son Croix, 8, was full of questions: "'What does the president do and what does it mean? And how old is Barack's little daughter?'" I was like, 'That's what I'm talking about,'" the comedian joked. "'Make that move!'"

And Beyonce got the hell outta Japan so she could be in the U. S. of A when this all went down.

"I said, 'What am I doing? I'm completely making a bad decision. I have to go home, I'm gonna kill myself if I'm not home in America,'" she told the AP. "I knew I needed to be here."

Knowles watched the election results at home with friends and family â€" while wearing a blue suit and tie with matching red, white and blue stilettos.

"I've never been so patriotic! I fell asleep crying and smiling at the same time ... I woke up with mascara running and a smile on my face!"

Should Obama require her services, the singer is game: "Whatever they want â€" if they need me to volunteer, they need me to sing, I'm there and I'm ready."

But what is most important, Knowles said, is that the newly elected president has provided inspriration for African Americans.

"My nephew, who is 4, when we say, 'You can do whatever, you can be whatever,' it's not cliche," she explained.

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