To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
QUEEN LATIFAHTo me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
QUEEN LATIFAHI try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
QUEEN LATIFAHI enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
QUEEN LATIFAHI didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
QUEEN LATIFAHBe bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
QUEEN LATIFAHAlways follow your own path.
QUEEN LATIFAHI feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
QUEEN LATIFAHLife is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
QUEEN LATIFAHI don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
QUEEN LATIFAHTo me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.
QUEEN LATIFAHI don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
QUEEN LATIFAHNew Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
QUEEN LATIFAHI often find it’s just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It’s how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.
QUEEN LATIFAHYou just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
QUEEN LATIFAHEven if you don’t have anything, even if you’ve got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.
QUEEN LATIFAHI think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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