RuPaul: Quotes about people

RuPaul is Actriz de Televisa, dueña y señora de los ejidos cacaoahuateros. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“People ask, "Why do you dress like a woman?" I don't dress like a woman. I dress like a drag queen.”

RuPaul

Quoted in Let's Talk about Sex: More Than 600 Quotes on the World's Oldest Obsession, Felicia Zopol, ed. (2002)

People

“I have been discriminated against by white people for being black, by black people for being gay, by gay people for peing too fem. Did I let them stop me from getting to this chair?”

RuPaul

RuPaul's Drag Race - S10E13 (2018)

People

“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.”

RuPaul

Interview with David Shankbone (2007)

People , Business , Thinking , Change

“Like I said before, there are windows of openness in our culture. And then our culture closes those windows down just as fast. And I’ve seen it in my lifetime, time and time again. Right now I’m enjoying the freedom that we all have. But it could really all end. What happened in Germany in the early ’30s, no one could have imagined that — except for the people who had lived through that kind of thing before. And it’s all cyclical. So we have a certain freedom now. And I’m not just talking about gay people. I’m talking about everyone. We have a certain freedom now. But that could all change in a heartbeat.”

RuPaul

Quoted by Doug Rule in RuPaul: Ultimate Queen http://www.metroweekly.com/2016/04/ultimate-queen-rupaul/ (2016)

People , Imagination , Freedom , Change

“If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!”

RuPaul

Source: Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Uaa558nGDmgC&pg=PA6, HarperCollins, 2 February 2010, p. 6

People , Truth , Dreams , Feeling

“Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport.”

RuPaul

Quoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24914/1/the-subversive-genius-of-rupaul (2015)

People , Thinking