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 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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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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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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Living 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.
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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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 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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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
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I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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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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instinct leads me to another flow.
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I 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.
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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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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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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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 is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
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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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We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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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?
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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 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.
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I enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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