Queen Latifah Quotes

"Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."

"Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer."

"I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else."

"Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person."

"My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home."

"I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time."

"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."

"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."

"We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt."

"Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut."

"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."

"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."

"How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often."

"I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally."

"As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot."

"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."

"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."

"Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people."

"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."

"To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it."

"I have my dad's shape. No booty."

"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."

"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."

"If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income."

"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."

"I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants."

"A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way."

"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."

"My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!"

"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?"