Top 149 Quotes & Sayings by Solange Knowles
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Solange Knowles.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Motherhood is such an evolving journey.
When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.
The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.
Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.
It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.
Dubai's a pretty powerful place.
It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.
I try to transition my energy into just having fun.
I really feel like because I had my son so young, I didn't want everyone's help. I think people felt entitled to give advice, so I'm always very sensitive to moms and letting them feel their way out.
I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.
People who live in L.A. don't like to leave their homes because they have so much space. They have the nice kitchens and a cook and a pool. When you live in L.A., there is a sense of isolation in terms of raising a family.
My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross.
Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.
Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.
My sister and I truly are best friends.
I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.
Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.
I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.
Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.
Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.'
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.
I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.
I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her.
There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys.
Colors and prints are part of my style.
I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.
Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.
I'd rather live in the U.S. than Europe.
Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.
I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.
Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.
If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins.
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained.
I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.
I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.
I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.
I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'
I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.
Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
You get educated by traveling.
My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.
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.
I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on.
My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.
In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.
I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.
The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.
Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.
When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.
If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.
I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.
Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.
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