Quotes About Self-expression

What I love that has happened for years now with 'Drag Race' is the queens can go on to have any kind of career.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.

Each and every one of us has multiple identities, and this is a fact that should be celebrated. I for example, am a queer black woman who grew up poor in Los Angeles.

My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.

Christine and the Queens

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

My mom would always say, 'Hair is a woman's beauty.' I cut my hair all off. I was completely bald, and that was, like, 'What in the world?' My mom was like, 'What happened?' She had so many questions.

A lot of people told me I should be quiet about being bisexual and not say anything, but for me this is a part of my identity.

I never really necessarily liked being quiet.

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing.

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.

I don't carry off 'quirky.'

Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years, that's how I'm described. It doesn't sit comfortably with me.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If I had quit school in sixth grade, I would know as much as I know today and would have made one more movie. By the time I got to college, I was so bored and angry.