Queen Latifah Quotes

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that's Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.

I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

It must be so nice to be a white male.

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval of affirmative action.… We have to prove ourselves and we have to work hard doing it.

We are told, if you work hard, you'll succeed—but if that were true, Black people would own this country.

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

Too often, customary practices and discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, religion, social status, or class are the root sources of pervasive inequality in many countries.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.

I shouldn't have to be preparing my children that the world is going to be unfair to them for the rest of their lives.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.