Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles shares a glimpse into the making of ‘Matriarch’
Tina Knowles discovered writing Matriarch troublesome for a lot of causes, one in all them being so essential that she nearly gave up writing it.
The 71-year-old businesswoman opened up about feeling like no one would wish to learn her memoir as a result of “I thought [people] only want to know all my kids’ business. They’re not going to be interested in me.”
Nonetheless, she shared, “I’ve lived this incredible life, and you really don’t realize it until you start writing everything down,” in her dialog with Individuals Journal.
Sharing a glimpse into her writing journey, the style designer continued, “it wasn’t supposed to be a memoir. I was going to do a behind-the-scenes type thing with Destiny’s Child and just with the entertainment industry.”
At the beginning stages of her memoir, she wanted to steer clear from uncomfortable subjects, “It was very fastidiously written at first,” she said. “However then it was like, this does not even make sense as a result of there’s solely all of the constructive stuff. And there was a variety of positivity, you realize, however, no, I did not plan on writing that.”
Although because of the nature of her kids, Beyonce and Solange’s work, I’m told all the time that I have to be quiet, and it’s not like I like speaking out, but sometimes I just do have to speak out — I do, because it just gets to be too much.”
By means of her memoir, in its ultimate form, Knowles was lastly in a position to write intimately in regards to the full particulars of her life.
