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I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

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

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

Solange Knowles

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

Solange Knowles

My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.

Solange Knowles

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

Solange Knowles

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

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.

Solange Knowles

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.

Solange Knowles

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

Solange Knowles

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.

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Colors and prints are part of my style.

Solange Knowles

If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross.

Solange Knowles

My sister and I truly are best friends.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

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

Solange Knowles

Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.

Solange Knowles

I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.

Solange Knowles

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

Solange Knowles

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.

Solange Knowles

You get educated by traveling.

Solange Knowles

If I have on a bright red lip, you'll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It's one or the other for me - pick one feature for the day and really focus on that.

Solange Knowles

I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.

Solange Knowles

For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.

Solange Knowles

It's really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too.

Solange Knowles

The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

Solange Knowles

I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way.

Solange Knowles