RuPaul Quotes

#1. SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.

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#2. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

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#3. You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

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#4. Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

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#5. There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

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#6. We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

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#7. Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

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#8. The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

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#9. Don't be jealous of my boogie ...

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#10. It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

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#11. The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process - picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

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#12. The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

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#13. Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

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#14. Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.

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#15. I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

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#16. So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

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#17. The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

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#18. I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

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#19. And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

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#20. To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

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#21. Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

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#22. Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

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#23. We are born nude and everything after that is drag.

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#24. My goal is to always come from a place of love ... but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

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#25. I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

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#26. My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

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#27. Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

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#28. When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

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#29. When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

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#30. I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.

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#31. No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

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#32. Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

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#33. Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

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#34. You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.

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#35. Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your head will allow the audience to see it in their heads.

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#36. With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

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#37. When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

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#38. All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

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#39. Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

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#40. It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

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#41. There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

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#42. American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

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#43. What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

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#44. I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

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#45. It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.

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#46. The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

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#47. I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

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#48. Look at me
a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

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#49. It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.

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#50. Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.

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#51. You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

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#52. I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

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#53. My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

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#54. Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

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#55. True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

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#56. Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

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#57. When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

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#58. Own who you are and celebrate it.

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#59. A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

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#60. As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

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#61. Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

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#62. Don't take life too seriously.

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#63. You have to use what you have to get what you want.

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#64. Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.

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#65. We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

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#66. Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

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#67. I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude ... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof!

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#68. Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

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#69. It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

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#70. It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer.

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#71. Remember to love yourself, because if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen in here?

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#72. When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.

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#73. I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

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#74. Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

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#75. That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.

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#76. If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

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#77. I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

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#78. It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

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#79. We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

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#80. I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.

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#81. Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

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#82. Negativity is basically laziness.

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#83. Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

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#84. Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

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#85. Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

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#86. I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

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#87. My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.

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#88. It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "

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#89. Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

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#90. We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

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#91. My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go [ ... ] If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change [ ... ] Move on.

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#92. When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

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#93. Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes.

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#94. The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.

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#95. Loving yourself - it really takes a daily practice.

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#96. Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

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#97. Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

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#98. The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

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#99. If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

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#100. But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.

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