Quotes About Progress

I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!

If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.

'2 Dope Queens,' it was just a way for us to showcase female comedians, showcase comedians of color, showcase LGBT comedians, and shake up the landscape and be like, 'Hey, there is more than just what is out there.'

Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms more chances than they've ever been given before, but it's thanks to people like RuPaul, especially, who set that momentum going.

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

I really want to see normalization of queer sexuality - as well as the lack of sexuality.

That's the beauty of 'Queer Eye' coming back. No matter how far you think we've come as a society, there's still work that needs to be done.

I think the original 'Queer Eye' definitely started us on the journey to normalize the LGBT community and make people realize that we are just people just like everyone else. It started the road to acceptance.

To see queer people keeping each other down makes me so sad because I've been around for a long time - I've seen the people who came before us fight for what we have right now, and they did not fight like that for us to go backwards.

Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that we've never seen.

It's really great to see the queer landscape really change to include everybody and make the rest of the world understand that we're not just one or two things. There's so much about the queer community that needs to be represented.

I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.

Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way.

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

I'm always on a quest to find the next best natural fiber.

It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.