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" It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.' "

Solange Knowles

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" You get educated by traveling. "

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" I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect. "

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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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" When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston. "

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" I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person. "

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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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" 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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" Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange. "

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" I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves. "

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" My ultimate beauty icon is Diana Ross. "

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

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" 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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" I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby. "

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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. "

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