Quotes from RuPaul

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

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

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

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

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

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

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

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

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

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go [...] If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change [...] Move on.

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, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they're not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!

True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

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.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

Whatever people think of me is none of my business.

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

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.

I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof!