diff --git a/oauth2_provider/models.py b/oauth2_provider/models.py
index b9d9a3e07..d47699fc9 100644
--- a/oauth2_provider/models.py
+++ b/oauth2_provider/models.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from django.db import models
 from django.utils import timezone
 from django.db.models import get_model
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
+from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured