Mathew Knowles Quotes

Mathew Knowles
American Businessman
Born: Jan 9, 1952
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If I needed money, I wouldn't sell $5 t-shirts. I'd sell a Grammy or an MTV award. Mathew Knowles
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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
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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
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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
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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
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