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Queen Latifah

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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Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
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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Act Happiness Help Myself Proud Thinking
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.
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Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
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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Help Myself Poor Share
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.
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Appearance Design Image Myself Neck Regular
I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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Inspirational Modeling Myself Perspective
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.
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Enjoyment Goodness Myself Time Tough Work
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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Betrayal Body Feeling Ignorance Myself
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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Myself Reality Remember War
I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
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Decision Myself Queen Rule Treat World
If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I’d just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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Myself Run Time Version Worry
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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Disappointment Failure Growth Help Miserable Myself
I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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Act Myself Natural
I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
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Capability Life Myself Realization Thinking
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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Connection Direction Reason Sky Talk
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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Angry Difficult Feeling Myself Position Understand

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