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!’
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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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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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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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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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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