Top 100 Queen Latifah Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.
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#5. I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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#6. There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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#7. There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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#8. I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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#9. I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
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#10. If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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#11. Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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#12. I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
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#13. 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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#14. Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
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#15. 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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#16. I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.
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#17. My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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#18. 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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#19. Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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#20. Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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#21. I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty ... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself ... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.
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#22. I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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#23. I don't want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
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#24. Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.
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#25. I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that. I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.
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#26. I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.
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#27. There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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#28. I love Ralph Lauren, just as a designer. I still think he could make some better sizes with his clothes, but I like the idea of his classic American style.
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#29. I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.
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#30. Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.
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#31. Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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#32. I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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#33. When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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#35. I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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#36. Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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#37. 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.
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#38. You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
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#39. I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta ... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
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#40. For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.
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#41. I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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#42. My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was ... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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#43. Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.
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#44. My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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#45. I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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#46. I just like ladies who have class ... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion
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#47. 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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#48. You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
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#49. I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
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#50. I love riding, even if it's just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there's a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.
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#51. Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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#52. I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.
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#53. 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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#54. I often find it's just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like. It's how you feel about yourself that makes you sexy.
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#55. It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.
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#56. Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.
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#57. 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.
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#58. You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.
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#59. Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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#60. I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.
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#63. I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
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#64. 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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#65. There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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#66. I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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#67. 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.
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#68. I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.
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#69. I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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#70. 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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#71. I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.
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#72. I feel very positive about Newark's future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.
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#73. I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.
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#74. I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
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#75. I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.
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#76. Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.
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#77. For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don't have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.
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#78. People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.
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#79. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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#80. Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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#81. Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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#82. 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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#83. I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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#84. I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew.
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#85. Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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#86. I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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#87. Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.
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#88. The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.
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#89. 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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#90. You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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#91. I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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#92. Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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#93. I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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#94. I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
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#95. I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in.
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#96. I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.
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#97. 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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#98. I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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#99. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
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#100. 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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