Beyonce Knowles
Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer of R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Managed by her father, Mathew Knowles, the group became one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. Their hiatus saw the release of Beyoncé's debut album, Dangerously in Love, which established her as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth4 September 1981
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.
Who runs the world? Girls.
I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.
One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.
Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?
Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that.
I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.
Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.
There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.
When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.