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 LATIFAHThere are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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 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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I enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.
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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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To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.
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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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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.
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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’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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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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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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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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