Quotes by RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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...”

“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 ha...”

“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 livi...”

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

“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.”

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

“If you can't love yourself how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Say amen!”

“She's like a female phenomenon, she's a glamazon. A female phenomenon. A glama-z-a-a-on”

“We love you and you're so welcome here. You know we as gay people we get to choose our family you know we get to choose the people that we are around. You know was I'm saying. I am your family, we ...”

“People ask, Why do you dress like a woman? I don't dress like a woman. I dress like a drag queen.”

“I will not be ignored. I am here to stay.”

“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 anothe...”

“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, th...”