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You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

Queen Latifah

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 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
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
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
I never really took any acting classes. I’m just a natural ham, I guess.
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Act Myself Natural
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!’
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Regret Serious Talk Yourself
I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.
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Different Enjoyment Flavor Myself Recipe Togetherness
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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Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Dreams Inspirational Mindset Reality Yourself
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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Decision Experience Human Learning Myself Perfection Regret
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 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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Enjoyment Goodness Myself Time Tough Work
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
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
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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Actor Gift Necessary Performance Yourself
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

You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

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You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

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