I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

I like to keep some coloring tools around to draw vistas.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.