250 Quotes by Rupaul

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

Willingly release the hurt. Don't let the heartache define you.

The gift you can give to other people is allowing them to give you something.

Live your life in the now, because you get to a certain age and you realize, “Wow, that was fast.

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 go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

Never save bath bombs for later. Never wait for a special occasion to light candles. Don’t wait to book a massage. Treat yourself to a spa day. Get yourself a colonic immediately. Now is the time. Your body is a temple. Serve it and it will serve you well.

My drag is less about looking like a woman and more about saying F.U. to the cult of systematic masculinity I was bombarded with as a little boy.

The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process—picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.

Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.