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.
QUEEN LATIFAHI am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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 made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.
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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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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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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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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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