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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Queen Latifah

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
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Dreams Inspirational Mindset Reality 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
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
Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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Different Myself Offering Woman Women Empowerment
I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Limitation Music Myself
So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
QUEEN LATIFAH

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

Actor Gift Necessary Performance Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Disappointment Failure Growth Help Miserable Myself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Children Follow Myself Perfection Shoes
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Decision Myself Queen Rule Treat World
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Mother Myself Promise Time
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Pay Pride
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Connection Direction Reason Sky Talk
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 LATIFAH

Carry Woman Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Decision Management Myself Power
I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Inspirational Modeling Myself Perspective
Always follow your own path.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Follow Path Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Artist Business Creation Destiny Guide Movie Myself Status
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Job Myself Person Strong Woman
I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that’s the look.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Design Image Myself Neck Regular
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Day Death Live Move Stop Thinking Yourself
There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Confidence Inspirational People Person
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I’m living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Accomplishment Confidence Empowerment Feeling Goal Live Myself Woman
I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Comfortable Financial Live Myself
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Believe Stand Time Yourself
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Adventure Chance Home Life Myself

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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