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" If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins. "
Solange Knowles
Look
You
Good
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" From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life. "
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" 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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" I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance. "
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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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" My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive. "
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" 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. "
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" When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so. "
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" Dubai's a pretty powerful place. "
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" I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head. "
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" A lot of people don't know me as an artist. "
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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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School
High
" My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross. "
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" 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. "
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Doctor
" Motherhood is such an evolving journey. "
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Motherhood
" You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists. "
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" We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world. "
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Real
World
" I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same. "
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" When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better. "
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Treat
Good
" You get educated by traveling. "
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" I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby. "
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Feel
" I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that. "
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Own
Just
" 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. "
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" I try to transition my energy into just having fun. "
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" You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off. "
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" 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. "
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" I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop. "
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" Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different. "
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