RuPaul est une drag queen américaine, chanteur de dance, acteur et parolier de chansons qui a connu la célébrité dans les années 1990, où il est apparu dans plusieurs émissions de télévision, des films ainsi que des albums musicaux. Bien que connu principalement pour son apparence de drag queen, RuPaul est apparu à plusieurs reprises dans des rôles masculins, généralement sous le nom de RuPaul Charles. Il est le producteur et le présentateur de la compétition de télé réalité RuPaul's Drag Race pour laquelle il a reçu quatre Primetime Emmy Award en 2016, 2017, 2018 et 2019[réf. nécessaire].
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“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”
Source: Abiola Abrams The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love: The 11 Secrets of Feminine Power http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ILK0AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30, El Dorado Publishing, 25 June 2014, p. 30
Quoted by Doug Rule in RuPaul: Ultimate Queen http://www.metroweekly.com/2016/04/ultimate-queen-rupaul/ (2016)
“I will not be ignored. I am here to stay.”
Quoted in Queer Quotes: On Coming Out and Culture, Love and Lust, Politics and Pride, and Much More, Teresa Theophano, ed. (2004)
“You're born naked. The rest is drag.”
Quoted in Queer Quotes: On Coming Out and Culture, Love and Lust, Politics and Pride, and Much More, Teresa Theophano, ed. (2004)
Misattributed
Quoted in Let's Talk about Sex: More Than 600 Quotes on the World's Oldest Obsession, Felicia Zopol, ed. (2002)
“With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.”
Quoted by David Alderson, Linda R. Anderson in: Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries http://books.google.co.in/books?id=UxUtJJKycRoC&pg=PA172, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 172
“I don’t have to explain myself. My frequency is very common and is open to anybody to tune in”
Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: "Book of African-American Quotations"
Quoted by Ryan Castillo in: Syllabus: Communication & Popular Culture http://www.academia.edu/5379627/Syllabus_Communication_and_Popular_Culture, University of Denver
Interview with David Shankbone (2007)
Quoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24914/1/the-subversive-genius-of-rupaul (2015)
“Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.”
Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: Book of African-American Quotations http://books.google.co.in/books?id=NfdBrOgz4swC&pg=PA160, Courier Dover Publications, 2 March 2012, p. 160
“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
Quoted by Joslyn Pine in: Money and Wealth: A Book of Quotations http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YXPCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209, Courier Dover Publications, 2 September 2013, p. 209
Quoted by Doug Rule in RuPaul: Ultimate Queen http://www.metroweekly.com/2016/04/ultimate-queen-rupaul/ (2016)
Source: Veronica Well You Better Werk! 10 Life Lessons From RuPaul In (Mostly) Gif Form http://madamenoire.com/288751/you-better-werk-10-life-lessons-from-rupaul-in-mostly-gif-form/7/, MadameNoire, 30 July 2013
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
Quoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24914/1/the-subversive-genius-of-rupaul (2015)
Quoted by Doug Rule in RuPaul: Ultimate Queen http://www.metroweekly.com/2016/04/ultimate-queen-rupaul/ (2016)
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