"Who you callin' a bitch?"
Queen Latifah quotes
- Quotes
- 25
- Lyrics
- 15
- Interviews
- 10
Confidence is tagged on 10 of 25 lines, followed by wisdom on 7. Fifteen are lyrics and 10 are interview quotes, including Live with Kelly and Ryan (2018), Hot 97 Ebro in the Morning (2017), Rolling Stone (2007) and an Interview (1990). The songs include U.N.I.T.Y. (five lines), Ladies First and Latifah's Law. The standouts are direct address, such as "Who you callin' a bitch?" and the lines that follow about hearing a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho. One interview line is about work ethic: learning early to work harder than the white kids and the boys.
It's hard to keep a good woman down, so I keep comin'
Blow for blow, I take and I get some
Still I rise in a civilized wisdom
I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
Ladies first, there's no time to rehearse
I'm divine and my mind expands throughout the universe
BMWs and gold rope chains don't impress me
Or get you closer to the point you could undress me
Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho
Tryna make a sister feel low
You know all of that gots to go
Confident, a descendent of Queen Nefertiti
The mother of civilization will rise
Like the cream and still build the strong foundation
My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
We had the power to change people’s minds about things going on in the world, not just whose ass is the fattest.
I’m not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.
I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.
Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field—it requires some guts.
Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself.
A woman can bear you, break you, take you
I break into a lyrical freestyle
Grab the mic, look at the crowd, and see smiles
'Cause they see a woman standin' up on her own two
Sloppy slouchin' is something I won't do
Rule number one, don't step across the line that I drew
Number two, don't take credit for something you didn't do
Number three, check your heart, every man has a call
Whip out a .45-caliber pen and begin
A funky message from beginning to end
I have a lot of respect for female rappers. We are such a powerful minority.
They weren't born from the body, they were born from the soul
I don’t care what it is in life, you can’t have men without women. It’s just anarchy.
U.N.I.T.Y., love a black man from infinity to infinity
I hit the bottom, there ain't nowhere else to go but up
You put your hands on me again I'll put your ass in handcuffs
You tremble for my treble, you're begging for the bass
The voice is too vicious, the same as the pace