Quotes About Celebration

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

Christmas Queens' is a family effort!

Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

The queer community deserves a happy ending just as much as anybody else.

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

I take the time to show up for people in my field who are often not seen and heard in the same capacity as I am. Applauding other women and queer writers of color enables me to recognize and showcase the abundance of talent and work being created.

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.

I never thought in a million years I'd be involved in a project that celebrated the fullness of my identity of being queer and Asian.

Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.

You can celebrate pride, by lifting up what Black queer people have given us.

Normally when you go to a queer space the people often look like you, they are the same age as you and so on, but at Mardi Gras and at queer events in general, everybody is different, everybody comes together. And that is what I love about Pride and Mardi Gras and those sort of events.

That's what Pride really is: A chance for people who are extremely queer to feel, once-a-year, extremely normal.

To apologize for the Balfour Declaration would be to apologize for the existence of Israel and to question its right to exist. Here in Britain, we will not merely mark the centenary - we will celebrate it with pride.

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't like about our bodies, but it's really important to say the things we do like about our bodies. If you know you have great legs or a great butt, or if you're curvy, show it off if you're proud of it.

The crown of lamb has always been a quintessential Christmas dish, and growing up in India, we would read about lamb when learning about the holiday.

It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.

I seem to have had quite a lot of pink dresses.

We're liberals, so quitting is not an option. We will push through the hard days so we can celebrate together on the good ones.

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.

Bob Hope said: 'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.' And while this quote is generally amusing, it is even more amusing when you know he said that when he was old.

Perhaps I'm just a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' superfan.

Living in Indy, you have to be a race fan.

If you come to my shows, there's all kinds of different races, all kinds of different people.