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" I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything. "
Solange Knowles
Feel
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Child
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" I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed. "
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Class
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange. "
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" My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot. "
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Blog
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" Both my parents are first-generation success stories. "
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Stories
Parents
Both
" 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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Creative
Mother
" I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are. "
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" I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way. "
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" Dubai's a pretty powerful place. "
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Place
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" 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. "
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High School
School
High
" Motherhood is such an evolving journey. "
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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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Cool
New York
" I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives. "
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People
Think
Women
" 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. "
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Australia
Football
Back
" I have so many friends who are designers of color. "
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Who
Many
Friends
" I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes. "
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Sister
Take
Up
" I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel. "
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Getting Old
Cause
Old
" I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves. "
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Dusty
Martha
Loved
" 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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Happy
Me
You
" I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable. "
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Pretty
Out
Like
" It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.' "
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Tell
You
Parents
" 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. "
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Black
Young
You
" 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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Divorce
Life
Marriage
" In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict. "
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Gonna
Any
Relationship
" 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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Father
Dream
Space
" It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music. "
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Great
Music
Passion
" My mom's best friend growing up was diagnosed with AIDS, and he basically raised me when my mom was launching her business. Although I didn't understand at the time what HIV or AIDS was, I knew that's what he passed away from. "
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Best
Business
Time
" I really wanted people just to get to know Solange on my first album, just to establish Solange's sound, just to establish Solange's personality. "
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