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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.

Queen Latifah

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 LATIFAH

Conversation Feeling God Myself Prayer
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
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
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
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Betrayal Body Feeling Ignorance Myself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Day Death Live Move Stop Thinking Yourself
I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Design Image Myself Neck Regular
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Failure Fear Feeling Move Worst Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Love Smart Time Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Feeling Myself Queen Treatment Woman
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Age Appearance Body Myself Teen
I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Enjoyment Goodness Myself Time Tough Work
I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Act Myself Natural
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
QUEEN LATIFAH

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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Confidence Feeling Yourself

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