We can still be sexy and vibrant, fashionable, classy, and fly until the day we die!
Tina Knowles
Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative.
If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.
I believe in the power of great clothing. It can evoke confidence, beauty, and a sense of glamour.
I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.
It's easy to make clothes for a model, but when you can put them on real women and real curves, that's the test.
My 'Book of Prayer' is the most important thing I carry. If I'm tense about something or need to pray for protection for my kids, it always helps.
When my kids were young, we used to go to a place called The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Houston. It was an African-American bookstore where they sold paintings, but they also had a room that was an all-purpose center. If you wanted to have a dance recital or anything that was related to the community activities, you could have it there.
I'd like to reinforce that fact that if you put out positive stuff that that's what you get back.
When you get to be a certain age, you want to wear your tops a little longer or pants that are more generous in the back area.
Everything in my life happened for a reason. Even when I thought they were the worst things in the world, they turned out to be the best things in the world.
When I owned a hair salon back in Houston, I did a lot of makeovers. Women would come in for a new hairstyle and go out with a whole new look. I know what looks good on a woman.
I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.
Diana Ross... she's the bomb.
I not only enjoy a really great friendship with both my girls but also a close mother-daughter bond as well.
We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.
I always have Trident gum with me because I talk to people all the time.
Beyonce has long, muscular legs but is tall, thin, and very curvy, even voluptuous.
Haters gonna be haters, and there's nothing we can do about that.
When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.
My mother, Agnes Dereon Beyince, was a seamstress and designer, and her passion passed down to me.
Yves Saint Laurent mascara is the best I've ever tried.
I taught my girls to pick up their own suitcases. Pretty is as pretty does.
You can dress sexy without going too far.
Sometimes people hear that you help somebody or you said something that really resonated with them that they really needed to hear. Sometimes people get motivated to go and do stuff. That makes me feel really good because I feel like I'm affecting people in a good way.
I'm a huge fan of Motown. When you saw them on stage, you saw sparkle... you saw attitude. They didn't have on t-shirt and jeans.
I don't post pictures of my grandchildren unless I get permission. I'm really respectful about that. If I feel like anything is invasive of someone's privacy, I don't do that, either. Sometimes I have great pictures, but I'm like, 'Eh, maybe this is not right.'
Beyonce, Solange, and my adopted daughter, Kelly Rowland, and I have always bonded over fashion.
When I mentor girls, I'll go around the room and ask them what they want to be or do. I've heard so many kids say, 'I don't want to be anything,' which is really shocking, but it's because no one has sat down and asked them.
My grandkids are amazing.
When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.
When I went through my divorce, I decided that I was going to pray this time for someone. Then, God sent me someone. I prayed for the specific qualities I wanted in a man, and I wasn't going to settle for anything less.
I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.
Take the time to get your clothes to fit. It makes a difference.
There was a time when I doubted if I would find love again. But I was determined to be happy.
You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.
As a teenager, my brother's girlfriend came into my life, and I just thought she was the bomb. I followed her around, and she could just say anything, and it would influence me. She took me to my first nice restaurant, bought me my first nice handbag, and took me to my first Alvin Ailey show when I was 14, which changed my life.
The whole thing about dating was the scariest thing in the world. And I would tell my friends, 'I'm never going to find anyone. Where am I going to find someone? By now, I'm 59 years old. Where do you meet men?' It was really funny. So I just focused on myself.
When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?
If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?
In the music business, if you're not a fighter, you will get walked all over.
People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, 'You gonna go hang out? You gonna go to this party?' She was always just so durn easy, so durn mature.
Our lives haven't been picture-perfect.
Everybody has their pain.
I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.
Beyonce knows what looks good on her and what doesn't. She likes fitted dresses. They flatter her curvy figure. Baggy tops don't work. But for everyday wear, she really prefers jeans and a fitted jacket.
Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people of Baton Rouge.
As a designer, I believe in the power of fashion. It has the ability to not only change how you look but also how you feel about yourself.
Beyonce was very shy around children, and one of the reasons we put her in dance classes was so she'd have some little kid friends.
The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.
