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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

There are so many things I’d like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Life Myself Parents Progression
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Choice Hate Love Mirror Yourself
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Allow Big Life Ourselves Thinking Wide
As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Age Appearance Body Myself Teen
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 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!’
QUEEN LATIFAH

Regret Serious Talk Yourself
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to… until they really bite us in the butt.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Betrayal Body Feeling Ignorance Myself
There are different flavours of sexiness.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Appearance Different Feeling
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
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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Beautiful Love Mindset Sound Start 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.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Citizenship Female Myself People Teaching
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’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Involve Myself
It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.
QUEEN LATIFAH

Build Character Easy Myself Right Strong
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

Failure Fear Feeling Move Worst Yourself

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