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" At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random. "
Solange Knowles
Growing Up
Random
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" I'm really good at telling people 'no.' "
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" People from New Orleans are extremely prideful. "
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" 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. "
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" I have so many friends who are designers of color. "
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" I'm surrounded by such beautiful, creative people, and I just love sort of sharing their stories and their journeys. "
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" I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.' "
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" Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys. "
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" It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.' "
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" Dubai's a pretty powerful place. "
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" 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. "
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" I have a lot of guy-like quintessential relationship qualities that I have had to work on. "
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" I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same. "
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" Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life. "
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" My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession, actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when 'Nastradamus' was out, and I took it pretty far. "
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" I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves. "
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" I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her. "
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" It's really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too. "
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" I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon. "
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" 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. "
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" You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists. "
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" Colors and prints are part of my style. "
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" Motherhood is such an evolving journey. "
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" Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different. "
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" My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child. "
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" I'd rather live in the U.S. than Europe. "
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" I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes. "
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" 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. "
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You