Queen Latifah Quotes

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

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• The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Women
  • Home

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Kids
  • Independent
  • Popular

• Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Compromise
  • Once

• Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Career
  • Mom
  • Moral

• To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Career
  • Day
  • End

• I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Remember
  • Learning

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Fight

• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Technology
  • Problem

• Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Want
  • Like
  • Story

• I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I do watch a lot of YouTube.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Watch
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  • YouTube

• I don't drink hot beverages.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Drink
  • Hot

• If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Think
  • You
  • Boy

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Teenagers

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Day
  • Style
  • Independent

• Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

  

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