Quotes from RuPaul

The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.

remember to love yourself, because if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen in here?

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.

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer.

You are born naked, the rest is drag.

I realize that no one has been crueler to me than I have been to myself. The most dangerous place on earth is inside my head.

But I will not be ignored. The soul that lives inside this body will not be ignored. I am here to stay.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

After licking my wounds, I created new dreams. I planted more seeds. I had begun to understand that my ability to change my perception and reinvent myself was my trump card.

Happiness is wanting what you already have.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Everyone knows about the diminishments of growing older, but no one talks about the expanding strengths. Paired with intellect, your intuition grows increasingly stronger and more on point.

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.

You have to find a tribe.

Reading is fundamental.

Having money, power, and respect pacifies the ego only temporarily and does nothing to relieve the deeper feeling of emptiness. We're all sold on this idea that wholeness can be bought, married into, or wished real hard for, but the more substantial definition of success requires a lot more than just worldwide recognition and acquiring things.

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!

I had learned to transcend my skewed limitations by changing my perception. Understanding that process on an intellectual level is the beginning. Practicing it on an emotional level is success. I created new dreams

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM. JUST SMILE AND STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

My wealth would not rely on what other people assumed about me. 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.

Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.

Think healthy thoughts. Even if you have every right to complain, don't do it. If it's raining, learn to dance in the rain. You are the architect of your life. Please believe it and let that be the reason.