It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all. 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. I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen. 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. 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. I figured if I wasn't the best rapper, then I shouldn't completely rely on rap. 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. 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. If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at Burger King. Mark the 45 King, to appear at a school dance. The basement of James's parents' house in East Orange, which was equipped with electronic and recording equipment, became the hangout of Latifah and her friends.
They began to call themselves "Flavor Unit. James was beginning a career as a producer and made a demo record of Queen Latifah's rap Princess of the Posse. He gave the demo to the host of Yo! The next year Latifah released her first album, All Hail to the Queen, which went on to sell more than 1 million copies.
As she began to earn money, Latifah displayed an interest in investment, putting money into a delicatessen and a video store on the ground floor of the apartment in which she was living.
She came to realize that she had a knack for business, and realized that there was an opening for her in record production. By late , the company had signed 17 rap groups, including the very successful Naughty by Nature. In , Latifah recorded a jazz- and reggae-influenced album titled Black Reign. While the album sold more than , copies, the single "U. In the s, Latifah branched out into acting. She made her big screen debut in Spike Lee's interracial romance drama Jungle Fever She soon landed a leading role on the small screen, appearing in the sitcom Living Single from to ' It remains one of the few sitcoms to focus on a group of African-American women.
A talented performer, Latifah continued to tackle both comedic and dramatic parts. Fox, playing as a lesbian bank robber. Her portrayal of prison matron Mama Morton gave her a chance to show off both her singing talents and acting skills. For her work in the film, Latifah earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. At about his time Latifah directed her attention toward acting and starred in the popular s sitcom Living Single.
Following in the footsteps of previous black movie stars like Diana Ross who both sang and acted Latifah accepted a role as a jazz singer in the film Living Out Loud. She used this role to demonstrate her spectacular singing talents which were downplayed on her rap records. In she played Mama Morton in the movie adaptation of musical Chicago which earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
In a male-dominated genre that is largely misogynistic, Queen Latifah has managed to carve out a specific feminist niche while still maintaining her credentials as a major rap artist. Her meteoric rise and continued popularity makes Latifah, according to many observers, the most important black woman in music since Diana Ross.
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