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Queen Latifah self-esteem trying people I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires. Queen Latifah smart creative people 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 rocks new-york kids I'd like to have and adopt children. 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 mom children thinking My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom. Queen Latifah growing-up mom mother I'm the daughter of a sister whose the mother of a brother who's the brother of another. Queen Latifah daughter brother mother 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. Queen Latifah broken sweet life 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 doing-you voice fall 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. Queen Latifah connections sky kids I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life. Queen Latifah things-in-life bigs simple 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 rapper growing-up country You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love. Queen Latifah smart silly sometimes 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 week life-is-like dream I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess. Queen Latifah ham acting class
