Queen Latifah Quotes
I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don't have to do it physically.
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Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
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Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
