Top 140 Queen Latifah Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.”

— Queen Latifah

102. “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.”

— Queen Latifah

103. “I’m thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I’m not like ‘I’ve got to succeed,’ I just don’t think about that. I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.”

— Queen Latifah

104. “I was baptized a Baptist, but I’m just Christian, as far as I’m concerned. I could go in any church, doesn’t matter if it’s Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.”

— Queen Latifah

105. “People say I’m going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I’ll be the next me. I feel like there’s always a lane for me as long as I’m true to myself.”

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106. “As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.”

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107. “I’m not allowed to get a big head, I’ve still got to do the simple things in life.”

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108. “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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109. “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.”

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110. “There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America’s children.”

— Queen Latifah

111. “It’s great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn’t consider viable employees.”

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112. “I feel very positive about Newark’s future, but I know we need a lot of help. I think that starts with the education of our kids and making the streets safer.”

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113. “To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.”

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114. “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.”

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115. “I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can’t be dying all the time.”

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116. “I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.”

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117. “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.”

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118. “There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren’t all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.”

— Queen Latifah

119. “I’m a sucker for a man who cries. It just gets to me.”

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120. “To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves – it doesn’t matter whether you’re a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.”

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121. “For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I’m always trying to move away from that, because it’s not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.”

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122. “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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123. “It’s not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It’s about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.”

— Queen Latifah

124. “Church was a requirement – there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.”

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125. “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?”

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126. “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.”

— Queen Latifah

127. “I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can’t be all about a man’s opinion.”

— Queen Latifah

128. “I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.”

— Queen Latifah

129. “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.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “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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132. “I’m probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the ’hood. That’s the biggest thing, that I’ve been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.”

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133. “To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn’t had any training.”

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134. “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.”

— Queen Latifah

135. “When you’re rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.”

— Queen Latifah

136. “When I’m doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don’t love every day, I’m not very good at it. That’s called work, and I don’t like work that much.”

— Queen Latifah

137. “I’m not the type that’s going to sit and preach to people if they don’t need it just because I’ve been around the block a few times.”

— Queen Latifah

138. “I’ve never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.”

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139. “The good thing about movies is that they’re subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.”

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140. “I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you’re in tough circumstances, there’s always somebody who’s in a worse position than you.”

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141. “So often, you don’t get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you’re on set.”

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

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143. “When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn’t sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.”

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144. “There are different flavours of sexiness.”

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145. “When I want to push myself and do intense workouts, I do that, but I’m not going to do it because anybody thinks I should look a certain way. It’s really more about how I feel and about being healthy.”

— Queen Latifah