Queen Latifah Quotes
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There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.
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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.
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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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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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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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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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Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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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.
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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.
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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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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
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The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.
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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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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.
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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.
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I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
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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.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.