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.
QUEEN LATIFAHTo wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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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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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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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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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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.
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You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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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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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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.
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I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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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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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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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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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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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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