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 LATIFAHI’m as involved as I can be. Whenever I’m asked to do something, I always tend to show up.
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So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.
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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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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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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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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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’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.
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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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I feel anger and I feel understanding. It’s a difficult position to be in.
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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.
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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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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?
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If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I’d just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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