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 LATIFAHI 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 LATIFAHWhen you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
QUEEN LATIFAHNew Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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 LATIFAHDreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
QUEEN LATIFAHAlways follow your own path.
QUEEN LATIFAHI am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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.
QUEEN LATIFAHLiving for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.
QUEEN LATIFAHEven 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.
QUEEN LATIFAHThere is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
QUEEN LATIFAHI’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
QUEEN LATIFAHI don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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.
QUEEN LATIFAHBusiness is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.
QUEEN LATIFAHI like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
QUEEN LATIFAH