If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
QUEEN LATIFAHTo 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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Always follow your own path.
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I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
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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.
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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I’m proud of everything I do, but I think I’m the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.
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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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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid – I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
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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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I 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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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that’s why I became involved in management, bottom line.
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I 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.
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