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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
- Nov 07, 2020
I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.
- Herbert
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Award
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Direct Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest 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 really deny it, and you can't run from it.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always follow your own path.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Jesus
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020