107+ Queen Latifah Quotes On Feminist, Hip-hop And Activist

Queen Latifah is an American musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, and actress. She is known for her positive messages in her music and her award-winning acting performances. Queen Latifah has been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards and has released several successful albums throughout her career. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Queen Latifah on life, love, feminist.

Top 10 Queen Latifah Quotes

1. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
2. You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.
3. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
4. I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Let your inner queen's voice come through loud and clear. Be strong, be authentic, be you, and you'll do her proud.
10. Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Queen Latifah Short Quotes

• There are different flavours of sexiness.
• I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.
• Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
• I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
• Always follow your own path.
• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
• You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.
• I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another.
• Those curveballs are always coming-eventually, you learn to hit some of them.
• I like to keep some coloring tools around to draw vistas.

Queen Latifah Quotes About Life

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. — Queen Latifah

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

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? — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life. — Queen Latifah

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later. — Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Quotes About Love

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. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part. — Queen Latifah

I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be. — Queen Latifah

While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something. — Queen Latifah

I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do. — Queen Latifah

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Quotes About People

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. — Queen Latifah

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. — Queen Latifah

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too. — Queen Latifah

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees. — Queen Latifah

There is nothing like a person with confidence, male or female, not conceitedness, but confidence. That inspires other people. — Queen Latifah

I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time. — Queen Latifah

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause. — Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Quotes About Positive

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. — Queen Latifah

I feel anger and I feel understanding. It's a difficult position to be in. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable. — Queen Latifah

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

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

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level. — Queen Latifah

I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve. — Queen Latifah

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not? — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio. — Queen Latifah

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park. — Queen Latifah

I try to only commit myself to things that I think I can accomplish and commit myself to 100 percent. I try not to bite off more than I can chew. — Queen Latifah

God has always been in my life and his little voice in me that lets me know when I'm falling a little too far left or right, up or down you know. I know because there is a little voice that starts saying, 'damn it, what are you doing? You need to slow down with that' or I might not be a good person to hang around you know... So God will do this to me in some sort of way. Or something bad will happen to me. — Queen Latifah

It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free. — Queen Latifah

Jumping off that cliff in Jamaica.It was years ago. It was at this place called Rick's Cafe. Actually, it was two cliffs. They were pretty high, probably a good 40- 50-foot jump into the ocean. That was crazy. — Queen Latifah

You need to give yourself the time to think freely. I don't know if that is political. But sometimes things are political because you observe things that are right or that are wrong and you want to speak on them. — Queen Latifah

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor. — Queen Latifah

There are two things I wear. One is a Curvation undergarment over my whole body, and then maybe I'll also put on some Spanx. They're so great. They have a way of smoothing everything out, and then you can just put on whatever you want. It accents you and makes you feel pretty. — Queen Latifah

Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me. — Queen Latifah

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!' — Queen Latifah

I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that. — Queen Latifah

So often, you don't get that opportunity. You only go over everything once and, the next thing you know, you're on set. — Queen Latifah

We all have to show up and do our job regardless of our life circumstances or situations. We don't have to do it with an attitude or whatever but maybe we do that day. Everyone understands that life happens and we have to create a whole other life where our life doesn't even exist. You know, our real life doesn't exist, these characters exist. And that is our life. And that's who we are. — Queen Latifah

Even if you don't have anything, even if you've got a quarter in your pocket, to share with someone else who has nothing really helps. — Queen Latifah

My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman, or daughter to mother, friend to friend - just off the record, clear the air and communicate. I didn't want to drive my mama crazy, but at the same time, I had to do, I had to learn, I had to grow and she understood that. She knows me better than anyone else on the planet so I tried to think about that. — Queen Latifah

[Hiking] is not that crazy, but when you look back and you see that mountain you just climbed, you say, "I can't believe I did that." — Queen Latifah

I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that's the look. — Queen Latifah

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

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

instinct leads me to another flow — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

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

When there's something that impacts a family member or friend, that is difficult for them, you want to do what you can to help. Sometimes you can't do anything and it makes you feel like you're helpless, so those emotions cross a big barometer, but they're a big, broad stroke when it comes to someone who you care about. If you have compassion in your heart, you just care. — Queen Latifah

When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on and so on, then we'll look at this thing [HIV/AIDS] for what it really is. It's a disease that's out to kill all of us. What will make it continue is our prejudices, our ideas about it, and the fact that we don't look at ourselves as one giant community. — Queen Latifah

If you're prematurely born or if you have things happening when you're like a baby being born. If you have to learn how to walk right or if there's something wrong with your gait or just physical things that are happening. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy. — Queen Latifah

Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business. You don't get to pull all those triggers at the same time doing anything else. Nothing pulls that from you. Dancing, acting and singing is like "Alright, I gotta fire on all cylinders right now" because that's what it requires. It's fun getting to exercise all those muscles. — Queen Latifah

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward. — Queen Latifah

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing. — Queen Latifah

Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

I have great family and friends that do not treat me like Queen Latifah. We've all grown with this thing, they have sacrificed part of there anonymity; they've had to deal with rumors and things in the paper and they've had to take this ride along with me and they've taken it and we've had a good time. — Queen Latifah

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. — Queen Latifah

I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know. — Queen Latifah

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective. — Queen Latifah

I lost my brother when I was 22. He was only 24. I was always the kind of person to live on the edge, but after that, it made me feel like I could really die. It can really happen. Before then, I never thought it could happen to me or my family. — Queen Latifah

I'm as involved as I can be. Whenever I'm asked to do something, I always tend to show up. — Queen Latifah

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line. — Queen Latifah

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

I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music. — Queen Latifah

I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly. — Queen Latifah

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5. — Queen Latifah

The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly? — Queen Latifah

Roxanne Shanté was kind of the first female to really come out and get respected by dudes, because she went at dudes real hard and battled them and freestyled a lot, and really came off the head a lot. — Queen Latifah

I just like ladies who have class... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion — Queen Latifah

Life Lessons by Queen Latifah

1. Queen Latifah has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to great success, no matter what obstacles you may face.
2. She has also demonstrated the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, while inspiring others to do the same.
3. Finally, Queen Latifah has proven that it is possible to make a positive impact on the world through your art and creativity.