Top 140 Queen Latifah Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.”

— Queen Latifah

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2. “Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.”

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3. “Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”

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4. “Always follow your own path.”

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5. “Life’s not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.”

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6. “You can’t let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.”

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7. “I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.”

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8. “I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

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9. “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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10. “If you try to follow everyone else’s mold, you’ll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.”

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11. “I don’t care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.”

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12. “You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.”

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13. “Let your inner queen’s voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you’ll do her proud.”

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14. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.”

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15. “For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It’s like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.”

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16. “I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, ‘You’re either going to love yourself or hate yourself.’ And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.”

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20. “Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.”

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21. “No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.”

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22. “Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.”

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23. “Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.”

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24. “Once you realize there is a Higher Power, you know you’re not alone, that you have a purpose on the planet. You control your destiny instead of letting the day lead you where it may. You seize it, take it and lead it.”

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25. “Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.”

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26. “The females don’t respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don’t think, I’m gonna get this money on my own, they think, I’m gonna get money from this guy.”

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

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28. “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.”

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

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30. “If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I’d say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.”

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31. “You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.”

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32. “Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.”

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33. “For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don’t have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.”

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34. “Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.”

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35. “I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.”

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36. “I don’t feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don’t care if people think I’m gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.”

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37. “I love riding, even if it’s just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there’s a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.”

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

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39. “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.”

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40. “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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41. “I’m the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who’s the brother of another.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.”

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44. “I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like a sexy bra and panty set, or little shorts.”

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45. “I’ve loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.”

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46. “I like Pirate’s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “What would your life be like if you found out you had 3 weeks left? And you know that you had not begun to live? And you had all these dreams and all these possibilities. And all these things you wanted to do and things you wanted to say and now time’s up?”

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49. “It’s not always easy to do the right thing. But doing the right thing makes you strong; it builds character; it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.”

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50. “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.”

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