Queen Latifah quotes - page 2

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it. (Queen Latifah)
I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love. View quote
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I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically. View quote
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way. View quote
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite 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 - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Queen Latifah)
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? View quote
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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. View quote
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot. View quote
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Queen Latifah)
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. View quote
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things. View quote
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I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting. View quote
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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. View quote
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