“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.”

“Society is better off with me in a gym.”

“I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.”

“I have actually five honorary degrees.”

“Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.”

“Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you dont travel, youll regret it. Your soul w...”

“Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.”

“For God's sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it's that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I'm not doing that, Dee. It may look like that today, or tomorrow, ...”