Queen Latifah Quotes

We opened the door for women rappers.

I believe in female rap.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

There was a time when we had a nice little run: Eve, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Da Brat - it goes on. But what I noticed is that a lot of talented females in hip-hop came out of a male camp.

A few people have asked me about the women agenda on country radio. I can only speak for myself on this, and all I have to say is that I'm very grateful, and thankful, that country radio has been so automatically accepting, and supportive, of me and my music.

I was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren't investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can't change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Women's music is underrepresented.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

It's great for my daughter to see Beyonce and Taylor Swift, women that are in charge of their own careers, writing songs from their own perspective and taking people to task. That's very different from when I was growing up - it was all like, 'Stand by your man.'

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

I want to make sure in every song we write that women are given power.

There are a lot more women drummers now than there used to be, and I'd like to think that I'm part of the reason.