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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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same. -- Rupaul
Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? -- Rupaul
It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave. -- Rupaul
My goal is to always come from a place of love ... but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me. -- Rupaul
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing. -- Rupaul
Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes. -- Rupaul
We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag. -- Rupaul
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! -- Rupaul
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box. -- Rupaul
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. -- Rupaul
SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor. -- Rupaul
Don't take life too seriously. -- Rupaul
The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party. -- Rupaul
Look at me
a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you. -- Rupaul
We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality. -- Rupaul
No one wants a cherry pie that bites back. -- Rupaul
The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you. -- Rupaul
When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Don't be jealous of my boogie ... -- Rupaul
The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
We are born nude and everything after that is drag. -- Rupaul
It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone. -- Rupaul
Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre. -- Rupaul
Negativity is basically laziness. -- Rupaul
Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero. -- Rupaul
We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item. -- Rupaul
It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. " -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic? -- Rupaul
When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back. -- Rupaul
And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all. -- Rupaul
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place. -- Rupaul
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition! -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself. -- Rupaul
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
You have to use what you have to get what you want. -- Rupaul
I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall. -- Rupaul
It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them. -- Rupaul
I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on. -- Rupaul
The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day. -- Rupaul
When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses? -- Rupaul
Own who you are and celebrate it. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. -- Rupaul
Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you! -- Rupaul
With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof. -- Rupaul
Loving yourself - it really takes a daily practice. -- Rupaul
We're born naked, and the rest is drag. -- Rupaul
That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins. -- Rupaul
It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe. -- Rupaul
It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up. -- Rupaul
I'm a regular Joe ... I just have the unique ability to accessorize. -- Rupaul
Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself. -- Rupaul
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? -- Rupaul
Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws. -- Rupaul
What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously. -- Rupaul
Throw a little shade when you need to. -- Rupaul
When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life. -- Rupaul
You are born naked, the rest is drag. -- Rupaul
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. -- Rupaul
You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity. -- Rupaul
I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude ... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof! -- Rupaul
Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind. -- Rupaul
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. -- Rupaul
Some people are beyond help, just accept that. -- Rupaul