Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Bob the Drag Queen
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Drag went from being referential to being the reference, which is crazy.
My mother went through a phase in her life where she... stopped being queer for religious reasons. I remember, my mother rebuking her sexuality... Queerness was not okay. She basically just said it wasn't okay for her... This is what, in my experience, religion can do to a queer person.
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.
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.
I've always been a very political person, I didn't want to become something I didn't believe in.
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.
When I auditioned for 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' I said I'm gonna get on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' I'm gonna win it and it won't be the most impressive thing I've ever done.
There's a narrative that anyone who goes out and chooses a family must have been thrown to the curb and stomped down to the ground by their families at home. That's not always the case, but sometimes you just need love from people who have extremely similar experiences.
For me, it was really important to immerse myself in the New York nightlife drag scene and become an integral part of that community.
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.
Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one's judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.
A gay bar is absolutely a sanctuary and a safe house. It's the place where you feel welcome.
I don't scare very easily.
I'm not a singer, but I do have a creative mind.
My drag mom is YouTube. I learned everything I wanted to learn. You can learn anything on YouTube.
Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!
RuPaul's Drag Race' is truly people telling their own stories. It's an amazing show.
I produce content for a few people, actually, between Peppermint and Marti Gould Cummings and different local queens in New York City.
It is interesting because even if you are great, and phenomenal, and talented, if you aren't easy to work with, no one is going to want to work with you. That's just the way it is.
My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up - these are all things that have really worked for me.
It can be hard to be your truest self on a virtual screen; it's definitely not the stage I'm used to.
I've been a drag queen in public for a while now.
Not only does the title 'We're Here' highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.
We talk race relations, gender politics, about what's actually happening here in America... Winning 'Drag Race,' has allowed me to amplify that.
Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of your lungs.
Sometimes being your most authentic self involves accepting others for who they are.
After drag, I remove lashes, then remove most makeup with a Ponds Moisture Clean Exfoliating Towelette. If I don't have a moist one on the road, I will use a dried-out makeup wipe by rewetting it with water.
The point of pride is to go out and celebrate life, including the lives of those who fought for us to get where we are.
My whole life I've been purse first.
Drag music is music. And it's okay for me to call it drag music because for me that has value.
I felt that society had told me out loud clearly and in no unclear terms, that there were several aspects of my personality, my life, my body, and my existence that were quite worthless. And then I found a community that said, 'No, girl. You're actually nailing it. All these things are great.'
I always wanted to stay true to myself.
I've been in small towns everywhere from the U.K. to Alabama.
I was raised in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. And I think that has practically everything to do with, you know, my formative years. I'm also black. So, this is what we're talking about, intersectionality, right? I'm also queer. And I'm also non-binary. And I think all these cultures have contributed to every essence of my being.
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.
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.
The majority of my life is not competing on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' so if anything, that was unusual.
Not living in fear is a form of activism.
We live in a world where people want everything to be free.
If queer people are nothing, we are strong.
When I'm getting ready, I listen to Celine Dion's live version of 'I'm Alive,' where she keeps talking to everyone throughout the whole thing.
You don't get to tell people why they can't be offended. That's not how that works.
I don't listen to Drake. That's not a shade to Drake. I don't know who Drake is for, but it's not for me.
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'm really loud, and I'm really amazing, and really talented. And really humble.
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?
I am pansexual as I actually remember also being attracted to women as well and thinking that maybe this like, thing where I was attracted to men was just like some weird phase or if it was something I could just ignore. My mom is queer and I have a queer uncle. So, I wasn't completely, you know, shielded from queer representation.
Sometimes I write for other drag queens.
Girl, it costs money to make content, so it should cost money to consume. If you want it, you should have to pay for it. That's life.
No one lives their lives not making jokes about things.
I'm a big fan of World of Wonder in general. They really are the queens of queer culture.
If you look back at old Captain America comic strips, he used to fight Nazis, you know? The American ideal is standing up and saying, 'No, that is not the status quo, and we will not accept that.'
For me, success doesn't feel weird; it feels right. When I wasn't on TV, I was like, this is the weird part.
I do my best to surround myself with queer people. I don't go to straight bars and it's quite frankly because I don't feel comfortable there.
When I first started traveling for gigs, I knew I wanted to create some online content.
I drink coffee for the taste, because if I want energy I'll just chug a Red Bull or something.
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.
I'm used to people being irritated by me. I'm like, girl, whatever. Be irritated. I'm gonna live my dream.
My dad's name is 'The Drag Queen.'
I think if you want to drag, you'll figure it out.
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