I enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
QUEEN LATIFAHI’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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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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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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.
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Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.
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I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don’t know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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