RuPaul

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!

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

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

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

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

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

Don't believe the hype don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.

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.

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

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