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.
QUEEN LATIFAHIf you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
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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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Life’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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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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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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I enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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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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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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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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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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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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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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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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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?
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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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I’m not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It’s really more about how I feel and about being healthy.
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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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