Solange Knowles Quotes

You get educated by traveling.

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

What's important is that my family and I are all good.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.

I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.

Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.

When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.

My sister and I truly are best friends.

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.