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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

Queen Latifah

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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Improvement Life Masterpieces Motion Yourself
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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Bold Brave True Yourself
I 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.
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Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
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
You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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Advance Believe Connection People Vision Yourself
I 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!’
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Regret Serious Talk Yourself
When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.
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Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
Always follow your own path.
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Follow Path Yourself
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Confidence Myself Opinion Way Woman
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
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
Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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Help Ourselves People Success Talent
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
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.
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Myself Pay Pride
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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Act Happiness Help Myself Proud Thinking
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Dreams Inspirational Mindset Reality Yourself
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Believe Stand Time Yourself
Even 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.
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Help Myself Poor Share
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Myself Person Serious Way
I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
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Allow Head Life Myself Simplicity
You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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Failure Fear Feeling Move Worst Yourself
When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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Actor Gift Necessary Performance Yourself
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
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Different Enjoyment Flavor Myself Recipe Togetherness
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
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide
I 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.
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Appearance Confidence Feeling Yourself
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

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