Quotes from Tina Knowles

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.

I'm a grandmother, but I don't want to look like a grandmother. I still want to look sexy and sophisticated.

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

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 grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

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.

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.

Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

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.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

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.

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

Shoes can change an outfit.

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.

If you're easily overwhelmed when you shop, remember that store employees know what's in stock, and they love to give fashion advice. Working with one is like having your own stylist.

We can still be sexy and vibrant, fashionable, classy, and fly until the day we die!

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

At 58, I knew I had to get a divorce. At that age, it's an almost impossible thing to go through. I had been married 33 years. I had been married for 33 years. I didn't know anything else.

You want kids to dream big.