Queen Latifah On What Motivates Her In Hollywood
Queen Latifah is all about listening to her gut, and she shared her own experiences about practicing it this week at a roundtable for The Queen Collective, which aims to bring gender and racial equality in Hollywood. Queen Latifah thinks before she acts.
“I pray about things before I do them,” she said at the discussion. “I find that I have to stop and pray often about things because I need to get quiet about something—especially something big, something small, something nagging at me.”
“I just need to kind of get quiet and pray about it for a minute,” she added.
“I’ve turned down so many deals through the years that were worth a huge amount of money because they didn’t sit right in my spirit,” she shared. “The guidance instinct in me said something’s not right. This is not the way necessarily, and in lieu of knowledge which I did not have because I started out at such a young age in my career, all I had was instinct. The instinct was sharp though. I could pretty much feel someone’s energy and if they weren’t right I moved right away from them, and it really guided me well. That and my partner Shakim [Compere] and my mother was the other voice in our heads.”
Now that’s a prayer warrior!