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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

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?
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Reality Remember War
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Creation Different Mindset Yourself
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Angry Difficult Feeling Myself Position Understand
It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Build Character Easy Myself Right Strong
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Beautiful Love Mindset Sound Start Yourself
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 LATIFAH

Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
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!’
QUEEN LATIFAH

Regret Serious Talk Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Exercise Health Myself Thinking Work
You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Advance Believe Connection People Vision Yourself
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Person Serious Way
So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Chance Opportunity Yourself
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Different Enjoyment Flavor Myself Recipe Togetherness
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Bad Industry Internet Myself Necessary Thinking
To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Bad Goodness Story Yourself
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Confidence Myself Opinion Way Woman

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