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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.

Queen Latifah

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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Adventure Chance Home Life Myself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Act Happiness Help Myself Proud Thinking
When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Actor Gift Necessary Performance Yourself
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Different Enjoyment Flavor Myself Recipe Togetherness
To 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 LATIFAH

Carry Woman Yourself
I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Break Home Music Myself Writing
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Pay Pride
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Believe Stand Time Yourself
If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Failure God Myself Reason Unique
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Decision Myself Queen Rule Treat World
No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Improvement Life Masterpieces Motion Yourself
I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Comfortable Financial Live Myself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Connection Direction Reason Sky Talk
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
I 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 LATIFAH

Children Important Moral Myself Remember Teaching Thinking
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Betrayal Body Feeling Ignorance Myself

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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