If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
QUEEN LATIFAHI 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.
More Queen Latifah Quotes
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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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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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To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.
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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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Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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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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You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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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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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 didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
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I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.
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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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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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