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Mathew Knowles Quotes
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Mathew Knowles
American
Businessman
Born:
Jan 9
,
1952
Beyonce
Child
Me
People
Time
You
If I needed money, I wouldn't sell $5 t-shirts. I'd sell a Grammy or an MTV award.
Mathew Knowles
Money
T-Shirts
MTV
Sell
Grammy
Award
Needed
Only a fool manages himself.
Mathew Knowles
Fool
Only
Himself
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.
Mathew Knowles
Mother
Black
Girl
Important
Considered
Say
Shade
Blackness
House
Message
Hearing
South
Up
Grew
Unfortunately
Your
Used
Deep
Growing
Deep South
Growing Up
Ever
Bring
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.
Mathew Knowles
Wife
Thought
Met
White
Later
Out
Blackness
She
Very
Tina
Former
Much
Found
Her
Actually
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.
Mathew Knowles
School
Black
College
First
Year
Blacks
Tennessee
Until
Go
Junior
Junior Year
University
My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.
Mathew Knowles
Entrepreneur
Mother
Marion
Kid
Someone
Dave
Maiden
He
Name
Looked
She
Cherokee
Lot
Up
Owned
African
Land
Grandfather
Acres
Alabama
Last
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