Ru Paul Drag Quotes

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It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.
RuPaul
Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.
RuPaul
You are born naked, the rest is drag.
RuPaul
Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?” “Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch.” “Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been watching RuPaul’s Drag Race again?
Nicole Peeler (Tempest's Legacy (Jane True, #3))
Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.
RuPaul (GuRu)
Drag really is all about dipping into pop culture and then reshaping it into something else.
RuPaul (GuRu)
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.
RuPaul (GuRu)
When you find success, sometimes you have to leave old friends behind. And sometimes you have to leave family members behind. It’s sad and heartbreaking, but it must be done. You cannot bring everybody with you, because some will resent you and drag you down to a level that makes them feel more comfortable.
RuPaul (GuRu)
You’re born naked and the rest is drag.” In truth, you are not your clothes, you are not your profession, you are not your religion. You are an extension of the consciousness that guides the universe, for which there is no name because it cannot be defined. That’s why all the superficial things you list as your identity are in reality your “drag.
RuPaul (GuRu)
On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that real religions get. I want to build big empty buildings where like-minded people can gather once a week to debate a non-existent deity. I want tax-exempt status. I want real food, not cheap wine and crackers. I want a rocking band. I want altar men! Not altar boys—altar MEN—and I want them to look like the chain-clad guy who hands an envelope to RuPaul at the beginning of “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar”.
Marsha Hinds
Being transgender guarantees you will upset someone. People get upset with transgender people who choose to inhabit a third gender space rather than “pick a side.” Some get upset at transgender people who do not eschew their birth histories. Others get up in arms with those who opted out of surgical options, instead living with their original equipment. Ire is raised at those who transition, then transition again when they decide that their initial change was not the right answer for them. Heck, some get their dander up simply because this or that transgender person simply is not “trying hard enough” to be a particular gender, whatever that means. Some are irked that the Logo program RuPaul’s Drag Race shows a version of transgender life different from their own. Meanwhile, all around are those who have decided they aren’t comfortable with the lot of us, because we dared to change from one gender expression or identity to some other.
Kate Bornstein (Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation)
If we want to be seen as legendary, we have to weave ourselves into history. If we were to make a quilt of drag, I'd want pieces from all over. A stretched hide from a shaman's tent; silk from Gladys Bentley's tuxedo; sequins from Divine's wiggle dress; hair from RuPaul's wig.
Sasha Velour (The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag)
Por nuestro hilo notaba que estaba mal, pero él nunca me quería decir por qué de primeras, como si no quisiese darle presencia cuando estábamos a solas, o solo para no revivir aquellas cosas que rozaban, tocaban y retorcían lo grotesco. Al final siempre me lo decía. Me daba mucha pena. En esos momentos quería estar con él más que nunca. No para besarle ni para demostrar que me tenía colada por completo, sino para darle un hombre donde apoyarse, para darle un abrazo para comprarle un paquete de pipas y sentarme con él en su banco a comer tijuana y a escuchar Crystal Castles. Le hablaría de mi gata Virutas para que se alegrara, le enseñaría fotos suyas y nos reiríamos juntos. Le comentaría mi amor por Winnie The Pooh y su amigo Puerquito, que es así como se llama en mi cabeza. Cómo un día me pasé el día con mi familia en el Max Center, el epicentro comercial de Barakaldo, y me compraron un libro de Puerquito que me hizo feliz. Le escucharía todos los minutos y las horas que necesitase soltarlo todo, nuestros clásicos let it out. Le haría reír con mis cosas de Pringada y con sus cosas de fan. Le tumbará en un césped escucharíamos The Cure mirando al cielo. Le pasaría un rotulador para que entre entretuviese pintándome barbaridades en los brazos. Le recordaría la escena de Phiphi vs. Sharon de RuPaul's Drag Race y el fracaso que fue Serena ChaCha. Le permitiría ser pedante sobre lo mala que le parece American Beauty, mi peli favorita. Le preguntaría sobre los orígenes de PXXR GVNG, el realismo sucio de Bukowski, su descubrimiento de The Drums y el outfit que tenía pensado llevar a nuestra próxima pinchada en Razzmatazz. Le haría elegir entre Vetements y Maison Margiela. Le sacaría todas sus nuevas ideas estéticas de haute cuture, como juntar dos camisas en una y parecer la promesa de la próxima MET Gala. Le haría saber que dentro de mí hay alguien que le acepta, le admira y le quiere tal y como es, sin cambiar ni una pizca, sin miedo a que parezca un maricón o a que pierda las formas con gente que en realidad importa una mierda. Le enseñaría que hay un mundo ahí fuera con más freaks como nosotros y que él era una estrella de las cegadoras que había ahí arriba. Que vivir en un mundo pequeño no le condenaba a una vida pequeña. la aseguraría que lo arreglarían mientras me haría un nudo de la garganta, dejaría mis bloqueos y le abrazaría hasta que se le fuese toda la tristeza por los pies. Y si se nos hacía de noche le dejaría mi chaqueta para que no se congelase de frío.
Esty Quesada (FREAK)
On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that real religions get. I want to build big empty buildings where like-minded people can gather once a week to debate a non-existent deity. I want tax-exempt status. I want real food, not cheap wine and crackers. I want a rocking band. I want altar men! Not altar boys—altar MEN—and I want them to look like the chain-clad guy who hands an envelope to RuPaul at the beginning of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.
Marsha Hinds
But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions came: Why you? Drag had been around forever. Why had I been able to crack the code after so many false starts and almosts?
RuPaul (The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir)
Not long after that, the questions came: Why you? Drag had been around forever. Why had I been able to crack the code after so many false starts and almosts? But I knew they would never understand the delicate choreography I’d done to make it all work. I’d mastered the art of naughty-lite: two spoonfuls of Diana Ross, a pinch of Cher, a shake of Dolly Parton, all sealed with Walt Disney’s family-friendliness. Before, I had been blurry—confusing, a thing that only some people could understand. Finally, I had snapped into focus, just in time for the whole world to see. The eighties, with all its excess and opulence, had also been marred by darkness: the heaviness of crack cocaine, the AIDS epidemic, the crashes of S&Ls in the markets. There was a yearning for levity in the culture, the very same irreverence and sense of play that had animated me my whole life. A window opened. I stepped through it.
RuPaul (The House of Hidden Meanings)
I watched every episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Craig Silvey (Honeybee)
People who are quick to point out the bitchiness of drag queens have probably never spent time with straight guys on the basketball court.
RuPaul (GuRu)
We are born naked, the rest is drag.
Ru Paul
Shit, you probably think RuPaul is a natural blonde.
David Clawson (My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen)