Queen Latifah Quotes

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

I would say I'm an inspirational guidelines book. You can take my life story or scenarios or songs and relate to them and apply them to your everyday life.

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

When you talk about inspiration, I draw inspiration from life. The people that I work with.

It's always great to see someone's life change for the better, and to be involved in something like that is really uplifting for me.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

That's the amazing part of humans - it's so weird how one person can inspire.