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 LATIFAHLife’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I enjoy just being me. I don’t need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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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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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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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.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It’s tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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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.
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