Quotes from Bob the Drag Queen

I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.

We paint small town America with a really broad stroke. There's a lot more nuance to these towns than, I think, the world knows.

My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up - these are all things that have really worked for me.

The movie where me and Leslie Jones play siblings will manifest at some point in time.

I hate the term 'the future of drag.' It's so silly.

It's okay to say you're doing well in the time of tragedy.

I'm basic. If it's Sia, I'm gonna like it. Her voice is great. She's ruining her voice though, the way she sings.

Sometimes being your most authentic self involves accepting others for who they are.

I'm used to people being irritated by me. I'm like, girl, whatever. Be irritated. I'm gonna live my dream.

My first time in drag was at Pride. I'm a Pride queen. It was a disaster. The short answer is that you can do it, but you're going to create a drag faux-pas. Do not, I repeat, do not wear high heels to Pride. Don't do it. It's not worth it. Just don't do it to yourself, honey.

When I first started traveling for gigs, I knew I wanted to create some online content.

It is a known fact that RuPaul's dresses are in two chunks. Sometimes she'll work the runway and take off all of her padding and put on some sweatpants and Ugg slippers and walk around the studio.

My drag mom is YouTube. I learned everything I wanted to learn. You can learn anything on YouTube.

Trinity Taylor and Ginger Minj both went on one of these big roast tours where the comedians all make fun of each other and I wrote their sets for that. Sometimes I help Monet X Change punch up jokes for her show, 'The X Change Rate.' I don't charge Monet because she's my best friend.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.

Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's not always about wearing black and listening to a Sarah McLachlan song.

Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one's judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.

My mom was one of the moms who was like, 'You are so handsome why aren't you modeling? I am handsome, but model... let's not get crazy.

I do think the issue with trans lives - especially in the Black community - doesn't necessarily lie within racism, but it does lie within prejudice and misogyny, specifically trans-misogyny.

Confidence has not always been something I had in my whole life. But when I found it? Man you don't have to be confident in every area of your life. Just grab something you're confident about, and if you coast on that it'll spill over to other areas in your life. Confidence is contagious, you know?

Listen, there is no equality without the loss of power. Someone is going to have to lose power. That is really uncomfortable for some people to actually think about, but in order for marginalized people to gain power, white, cisgender, straight, people are going to have to lose some and that's just how it is.

People pull from drag culture because drag artists are - it's the ultimate art form and it's the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.

For me, I think it's important to spread Black queer joy and acknowledge Black queer excellence and the achievements that have been made by my people, specifically meaning Black queer people.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.