I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn’t work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
QUEEN LATIFAHI learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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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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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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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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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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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 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.
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I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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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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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.
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I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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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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