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When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

Queen Latifah

So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
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Chance Opportunity 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’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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Act Happiness Help Myself Proud 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
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
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.
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Help Myself Poor Share
Always follow your own path.
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Follow Path Yourself
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 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
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
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
It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
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Build Character Easy Myself Right Strong
New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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Greatness Live Place World
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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Life Myself Parents Progression
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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Decision Management Myself Power
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Love Smart Time Yourself
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
I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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Enjoyment Learning Life Myself
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.
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Decision Myself Queen Rule Treat World
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.
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Children Important Moral Myself Remember Teaching Thinking
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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Involve Myself
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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Betrayal Body Feeling Ignorance 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.
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Bad Industry Internet Myself Necessary Thinking
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
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
When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I’m not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It’s really more about how I feel and about being healthy.
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Exercise Health Myself Thinking Work
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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Improvement Life Masterpieces Motion Yourself

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