Tag: RuPaul
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Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea – and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!
RuPaul
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I feel like I’ve won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.
RuPaul
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I’ve been on both sides; I’ve interviewed people, and I do an okay job, I guess. But it’s awful. Because you feel like you have to defend your life, which is such an interesting concept. It’s not an easy process to sit down and talk about, ‘What’s your motivation?’ Because as I’m answering, I’m working it out for myself at the same time.
RuPaul
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This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
RuPaul
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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 have figured out the equation you are faced with. It’s not rocket science.
RuPaul
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Usually, people who don’t have a broad perspective see gay people as servants – as people who are there to make them look good.
RuPaul
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It’s a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, ‘I come in peace.’ I come in peace. That’s why it’s important.
RuPaul
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I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.
RuPaul
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When I go out, I’m always dressed up. Not in drag but always prepared to be ‘on.’ Just in case somebody’s going to take a picture. Everyone has a Facebook page, so no matter what, I’m prepared to service the public.
RuPaul
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I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.
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