Quotes from Mathew Knowles

I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was actually very much in-tune with her Blackness.

I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.

Yes colorism does exist if you look at historically what's happened as far as crossing over to pop radio.

See, my philosophy is had Beyonce or Solange came to me and said Dad, I want to be a doctor. My personality is how do I buy a hospital? And that has nothing to do with stage. That has to do with the entrepreneurial inside of me.

See, I would never have Beyonce up here public speaking. She's not good at it. Solange was just at Yale. She's incredible at it.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

Blue Ivy is a star. She is just a star. I can see.

You can't equate me with Joe Jackson. I've never hit my kid, I'm educated, I understand the business world.

I grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

Beyonce did an incredible job of differentiating the sound of Destiny's Child in her songs. When you hear Destiny's Child, you know it based on the harmonies and the melodies.

What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and how you position yourself with your narrative.

My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it's unfortunate.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.

When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South in the '50s, '60s and '70s, the shade of your Blackness was considered important. So I, unfortunately, grew up hearing that message.

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.

There are some times when I have to take off the manager hat and be a father. And sometimes I have to take the father hat off and be a manager. And just to balance of that - and I'm not perfect so I make mistakes with that.

Destiny's Child has never broken up officially. So don't be surprised one day if there's a new record or a tour because the group never officially broke up.

It's a lot of stress being a manager - a lot of moving parts.

My second book will be the autobiography of Destiny's Child.

One of the great aspects of a Destiny's Child movie... is the empowerment of the songs and the empowerment that Destiny's Child has given to women.