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" I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either! "

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" I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. "

Queen Latifah

Experience

Decisions

Regret

" I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do. "

" 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. "

" I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life. "

" 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. "

" 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

Create

Money

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically. "

" When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back. "

" You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love. "

" 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. "

" Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer. "

" My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have! "

" 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. "

Queen Latifah

Shoe

Shoes

" I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys. "

" Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self. "

" Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan. "

" 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. "

" I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person. "

Queen Latifah

Way

Person

" Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time. "

Queen Latifah

Hood

New York

" I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky. "

" 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. "

" There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is. "

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

" I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well. "

" 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. "