Tina Knowles

“Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative.”

“I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.”

“I don't understand women who don't love women. I love women. I just think they are magnificent creatures.”

“Beyonce, Solange, and my adopted daughter, Kelly Rowland, and I have always bonded over fashion.”

“I loved Diahann Caroll growing up. I love a sophisticated, classy woman.”

“When Beyonce began singing in earnest, she was 10 years old.”

“I'd like to reinforce that fact that if you put out positive stuff that that's what you get back.”

“I believe in the power of great clothing. It can evoke confidence, beauty, and a sense of glamour.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My grandkids are amazing.”

“Nothing makes me happier than for a woman to come up to me saying, 'I started exercising, and I lost weight, and I got a new man,' and you know, I get chills thinking about it. It's my purpose; I feel like I found my purpose.”

“My mother was a very amazing woman. She was a very strong, remarkable 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.”

“My ex-husband is my family.”

“Yves Saint Laurent mascara is the best I've ever tried.”

“My girls do a lot of philanthropic work, but they are very private about it.”

“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.”

“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.”