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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.

Queen Latifah

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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
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
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
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.
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Freedom Politics Right Thinking Time Wrong Yourself
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’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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Limitation Music Myself
You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Children Doubt Inspirational Myself Power
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

Capability Life Myself Realization Thinking
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Failure Fear Feeling Move Worst Yourself
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.
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Bad Goodness Story Yourself
You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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Advance Believe Connection People Vision Yourself
I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Break Home Music Myself Writing
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
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
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
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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Adventure Chance Home Life Myself
I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Involve Myself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Accomplishment Commitment Myself Thinking
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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Help Ourselves People Success Talent
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
There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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Confidence Inspirational People Person
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.
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Conversation Feeling God Myself Prayer
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Help Myself Poor Share
So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Chance Opportunity Yourself
When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.
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Actor Gift Necessary Performance Yourself
I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Care Freedom Goodness Money Myself
I often find it’s just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It’s how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Confidence Feeling Yourself

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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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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