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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

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
I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Angry Difficult Feeling Myself Position Understand
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
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 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

Death Eat Love Myself Organic
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
Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Conversation Feeling God Myself Prayer
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 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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Bad Industry Internet Myself Necessary Thinking
I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Limitation Music Myself
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I’m living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Accomplishment Confidence Empowerment Feeling Goal Live Myself Woman
If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Family Job Myself
I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Act Myself Natural
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Confidence Myself Opinion Way Woman
Always follow your own path.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Follow Path Yourself
instinct leads me to another flow.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Flow Leadership Myself
To 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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Bad Goodness Story Yourself
I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Enjoyment Learning Life Myself
I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Allow Head Life Myself Simplicity
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 LATIFAH

Myself Run Time Version Worry
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 don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Care Freedom Goodness Money Myself
Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Reality Remember War
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Person Serious Way
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Decision Experience Human Learning Myself Perfection Regret
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
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide

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.

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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.

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