I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
QUEEN LATIFAHYou 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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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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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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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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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.
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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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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.
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There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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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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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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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.
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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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