Queen Latifah Quotes

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

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.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

How long shall the fair daughters of Africa be compelled to bury their minds and talents beneath a load of iron pots and kettles?”

Quebec women are treated like sows.

To attempt to explain a system like segregation to a 6 year child is a very difficult thing.

With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.

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.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

I know how difficult it is to be not just a woman, but a black woman, and I know how much we get attacked and our voices aren't heard. I experience it every single day.

Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.

We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.