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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.

Queen Latifah

Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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Appearance Beautiful Flavor Self Love Shade
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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Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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Care Freedom Goodness Money Myself
I 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!’
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Regret Serious Talk Yourself
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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Failure Fear Feeling Move Worst Yourself
I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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Comfortable Financial Live 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.
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Accomplishment Confidence Empowerment Feeling Goal Live Myself Woman
I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
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Allow Head Life Myself Simplicity
I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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Inspirational Modeling Myself Perspective
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Love Smart Time Yourself
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.
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Children Education Embrace Ourselves Professional
I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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Limitation Music Myself
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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Confidence Myself Opinion Way Woman
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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Appearance Job Myself Person Strong Woman
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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Decision Experience Human Learning Myself Perfection Regret
If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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Failure God Myself Reason Unique
You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.
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Creation Different Mindset Yourself
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.
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Myself Pay Pride
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Dreams Inspirational Mindset Reality Yourself
Business 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.
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Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
I 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.
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Appearance Design Image Myself Neck Regular
If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs – my first was at 15, at Burger King.
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Family Job Myself
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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Myself Run Time Version Worry
I really don’t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn’t build my self-esteem, and it doesn’t help me grow me at all.
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Disappointment Failure Growth Help Miserable Myself

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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