Queen Latifah Quotes

You have to be really comfortable in your skin. You have to start with being in love with you are, with who you've become.

I don't hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don't agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.

After years of struggling with how I looked, I'm pretty comfortable and proud of my body now.

My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

Accept your own and be yourself!

I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself. Coming full circle is a celebration of freedom and happiness because that's what [my new album] 'Lotus' is representing. I'm embracing everything that I've grown to be and learned to be.

I’m a jeans size up from where I usually am, but there’s nothing about it that freaks me out. I’ve always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

You should wear what you want to wear and not worry about trying to paint yourself in a certain image because that self-awareness is what's going to help you become a more independent and more interesting and healthier adult.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.