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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.

Queen Latifah

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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Bad Industry Internet Myself Necessary Thinking
You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Believe Stand Time Yourself
instinct leads me to another flow.
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Flow Leadership Myself
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.
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Day Death Live Move Stop Thinking Yourself
To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.
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Act Difficult Myself Training Transition
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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Decision Management Myself Power
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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Family Job Myself
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
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Age Appearance Body Myself Teen
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?
QUEEN LATIFAH

Myself Reality Remember War
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
Even if you don’t have anything, even if you’ve got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Help Myself Poor Share
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
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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Mother Myself Promise Time
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Creation Different Mindset Yourself
I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Feeling Myself Queen Treatment Woman

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.

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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.

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