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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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Track
You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.Collection: Bullying
It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.Collection: Doctors
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.Collection: Determination
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.Collection: Queens
When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.Collection: Believe
Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!Collection: Winning
I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.Collection: Lying
But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.Collection: Second Chance
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.Collection: Animal
It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Queens
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.Collection: Games
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.Collection: Growth
I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.Collection: Creativity
When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.Collection: Faces
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.Collection: Reflection
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!Collection: Shopping
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.Collection: Wall
The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.Collection: Media
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.Collection: Men
Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Effort
SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.Collection: Crazy
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.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Sacrifice
What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.Collection: Gay
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Sarcastic
It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "Collection: Love You
What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.Collection: Thinking
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!Collection: Superstitions
I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.Collection: Love Yourself
The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.Collection: Queens
The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.Collection: Party
Some people are beyond help, just accept that.Collection: People
The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.Collection: Laughter
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.Collection: Teenager
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.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Two
Don't be jealous of my boogie.Collection: Jealous
With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.Collection: Inspiring
All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.Collection: Funny
Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.Collection: Love You
We are born nude and everything after that is drag.Collection: Born
Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.Collection: Being Yourself