You 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 LATIFAHI’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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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 don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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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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There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
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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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Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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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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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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I 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.
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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.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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.
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