Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but there are times when that weight feels too heavy, feels like a load that I just can't bear that day. I try to work through that in my art, whatever medium that might be. My live performance is based around the color red, and all the things that communicates as a woman to the world - fiery, really vocal, present, almost a kind of stubborn color - and redefining it as being very complex. Being able to express that complexity, I'm getting a lot better at that the older I've gotten.
When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so. - Solange Knowles
When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.
- Solange Knowles
I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've p… - Solange Knowles
I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've p…
As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth. - Solange Knowles
As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.
Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths. - Solange Knowles
Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives. - Solange Knowles
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.
I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. And I think every woman in her … - Solange Knowles
I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. And I think every woman in her …
I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower. - Solange Knowles
I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.
I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else. - Solange Knowles
I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.
You get educated by traveling. - Solange Knowles
You get educated by traveling.
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