Oprah Winfrey has selected “Matriarche”, a dissertation by Tina KnowlesLike his latest choice of reading club. Personal memories detail the journey of Knowles’s life, passing to grow in Texas separated to raise it from Beyoncé music superstars and Beyoncé music and Solange.
During an appearance on “CBS Mornings”, Winfrey praised the memory of his intimate but universal appeal.
“What you have done is what I think is so difficult to do when you write a memory, and is to tell your story intimately, personally, but also to make it universal,” Winfrey told Knowles. “I believe that all those who have a mother and all those who are mother will love this story.”
The book contains revelations that even surprised Winfrey, including the previously unknown battle of Knowles against cancer.
Knowles, nicknamed “Bad Ass Tenie B” when she was a child for her frank nature, expressed both the excitement and the nervousness to share her story.
“It’s a wonderful day … but I still have a little anxiety, because you just put it in the world,” she said.
Memoirs started as a much wider project.
“I started with 1,000 pages,” said Knowles, laughing that his publisher insisted on the cuts, noting that “nobody will read a book which is 1,000 pages”.
“I really tried to tell the stories without telling the stories of others. It’s really difficult,” Knowles said.
Knowles said that she hoped that people will be inspired by some of the stories she had overcome.
“I also hope that people will make their family trees and go into their inheritance and their ancestors,” she said.
She also said that she wanted to leave an inheritance for the future generations of her families.
“I did not know my grandparents, so this is one of the reasons why I want to do this, it is to leave that to my grandchildren, that I want, my great-grandchildren, which I could not meet, and they will have a story in my words, and not someone else interpreting a story.”
“The best work important”
The brief also tells of the wedding of Knowles for several decades with Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyoncé and Solange. She revealed that her children were not fully aware of the couple’s all -time relationship until they were older.
“It was a time that I separated, and they were devastated because they were very young, and they did not know why,” said Knowles. “This is a difficult thing until they are older, because you don’t want to put this on a child.”
Winfrey stressed how Knowles sent the two girls in therapy at a young age to help them appreciate the talents of the other – a progressive parental choice at the time.
“She knew very early on that the girls’ relationship with each other should be balanced and speak in a way that she did not feel able to be completely done,” Winfrey said.
The book also reveals personal details on Knowles’s childhood, including experiences with racism and the fact that her young girl name was Beyoncé, who later became the first name of her famous daughter.
Knowles also shares how she named the Destiny’s Child group.
“I put their photo in my niv study bible, and one day I opened it, and he said” Destiny “. And I said to myself, that’s the name.
By thinking about maternity, Knowles called it the “best important job of your life”, explaining that despite his rebellious youth “, with my children, I said that I had to control myself. I must be deliberate and intentional … I just didn’t want to kiss this, because I drink things.”
“Matriarch” is available now, and Knowles will embark on a book tour to promote it. You can find out more about “The Oprah Podcast”, available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
