I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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I’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
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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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.
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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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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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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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I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.
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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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