Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
QUEEN LATIFAHAnyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
QUEEN LATIFAHAs a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
QUEEN LATIFAHI think it’s important to raise your kids, start ’em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.
QUEEN LATIFAHI never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that’s why I became involved in management, bottom line.
QUEEN LATIFAHTo me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
QUEEN LATIFAHI’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
QUEEN LATIFAHI feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
QUEEN LATIFAHIt’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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 LATIFAHIf 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 LATIFAHYou can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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 LATIFAHYou do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
QUEEN LATIFAHYou need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don’t know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them.
QUEEN LATIFAHIf you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
QUEEN LATIFAHIf 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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