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To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.

Queen Latifah

Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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Appearance Beautiful Flavor Self Love Shade
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Age Appearance Body Myself Teen
I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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Death Eat Love Myself Organic
There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
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Life Myself Parents Progression
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.
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Children Education Embrace Ourselves Professional
I think it’s important to raise your kids, start ’em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.
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Children Important Moral Myself Remember Teaching Thinking
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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Angry Difficult Feeling Myself Position Understand
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
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Betrayal Body Feeling Ignorance Myself
I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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Care Freedom Goodness Money Myself
To 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 LATIFAH

Myself Pay Pride
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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Enjoyment Learning Life Myself
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Involve Myself
I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Limitation Music Myself
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 LATIFAH

Carry Woman Yourself

To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.

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To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.

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