Tina Knowles
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321 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Tina Knowles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's funny because my girls will say, Mama, you don't always have to have your dukes up. You know, Beyonce tells me that all the time. But I think I had to fight for space. But I... I think, I don't know if it was the nuns telling me I didn't belong, that I fought to belong in the spaces that I've been in. And I taught them from day one that they deserve to be anywhere that they wanted to be.
And that's, again, people will not always welcome you, but you got to welcome yourself. Okay.
Oh, God. The proudest moments are when they do something that's not about entertainment, but when they do a charitable thing and they are good people, just regular good people and have good hearts. That sounds corny and it sounds like a cliche, but it's really the truth. I just get so full and so proud when they...
respect people and they do charity or they do, you know, something that's a normal thing. You've got to have been proud. Listen.
I know, me too.
But you know what? It was more so than pride. I felt like it was fair. That was my happiness. I just felt like they gave her a fair shot. Yes. For the real... You know, she's won a lot of Grammys, but sometimes I felt like some of those were consolation prizes. And so, for me... I don't know if I was so much proud as I was happy for her. Like, finally. Yeah, finally.
You got the recognition you deserve. You got the recognition you deserved, you know? For an album that was so out of the box. Yeah. Yeah. And that came from a place of, of pride for her because when she went to that awards show, you know, she was not treated well. And it was very much me back at Holy Rosary when somebody said, you don't belong here. And, you know, you're not good enough.
And that was like saying, I took my seat at the table, whether you like it or not, and I deserve to be here. I deserve to be anywhere I want to be.
Yes.
I wondered about that. Why? But they really set us up. And if I wasn't badass Teenie B who produced badass Beyoncé, we would have said, okay, we better go back to the drawing board. Yeah. But that just made us want to fight. And it challenged her to go and get Jay on the record, which is great. But the sad part is it came because she said they wouldn't do this to Jay.
They wouldn't tell him this, but they're telling me this.
Not from the beginning, because they talked for like a year on the phone. And I was like, oh, God, I don't ever remember talking to somebody for a year on the phone. Like, this is moving really slow. And so it took them a year to really get together when she went to do, you know, the movie in L.A. was, I think, the first time that they he had been to our house for dinner.
And, you know, but they weren't dating then and they weren't talking like that. So, yeah, it took a long time.
That is... I can't believe how good of a mother they are. All of them. They're just... really good mothers that are natural and that they love their kids and they put their kids first. And I'm getting emotional because I feel like I passed that on because my kids were always my priority. Because I did a lot of screwing up when I was younger and I was, you know, A little bit rebellious.
And, you know, I went through the thing with being mad at my mom. And so all the things that she didn't give me, I decided I was going to give it to them.
Yeah.
It was the most hurtful thing ever because I wasn't thinking about screwing in because I was really focused on getting out of that town. I don't know if I'm saying the wrong thing, but I'm just saying like I wasn't. And so it was a very painful thing for me. So what it said to you is your mom didn't trust you. She didn't trust me. But my mom told me eventually, it wasn't you that I didn't trust.
I didn't trust the world with you.
And just think about how could black southern moms would fear every time your child is is out of the house. And I'm fearful every time my grandson is out of the house. You know, I'm like, you know, make sure you do this. I mean, we as black women have to teach our sons and our grandsons and our granddaughters.
Because my mom was always saying, you got the biggest mouth and you don't know how to control your temper and you're so smart mouth. If somebody stops you, just shut up. Just shut up and make it home. And that's the shame that we have to tell our kids to shut up and make it home.
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