Bob The Drag Queen 99 Magnificent Quotes

Bob The Drag Queen 99 Magnificent Quotese

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I drink coffee for the taste, because if I want energy I'll just chug a Red Bull or something.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

We talk race relations, gender politics, about what's actually happening here in America... Winning 'Drag Race,' has allowed me to amplify that.

— Bob the Drag Queen

If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.

— Bob the Drag Queen

My dad's name is 'The Drag Queen.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I love how Americans are like, 'I'm just going to get up and move!' That's not how the world works. You don't get to just get up and move to Canada.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

— Bob the Drag Queen

No one told me that if you can't sing, you probably won't be on Broadway. No one told me that!

— Bob the Drag Queen

I'm really loud, and I'm really amazing, and really talented. And really humble.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I always wanted to stay true to myself.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I have to get my stuff made custom if I want my gown to touch the floor, my sleeves to touch my wrist.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I love keeping busy.

— Bob the Drag Queen

RuPaul's Drag Race' is truly people telling their own stories. It's an amazing show.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

I've always been a very political person, I didn't want to become something I didn't believe in.

— Bob the Drag Queen

You don't get to tell people why they can't be offended. That's not how that works.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

For me, it was really important to immerse myself in the New York nightlife drag scene and become an integral part of that community.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I've been a drag queen in public for a while now.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

My whole life I've been purse first.

— Bob the Drag Queen

Dreams really do come true, which sounds so cheesy but it's really true.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I make fun of a lot of stuff I shouldn't make fun of.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I'm a big fan of World of Wonder in general. They really are the queens of queer culture.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I don't scare very easily.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I listen to 'This American Life,' 'Serial,' 'S-Town,' 'Feast of Fun.' I listened to 'What's the Tee?' And that has really helped me throughout my entire drag career - podcasts have been a mainstay in my life as a drag artist.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

Drag went from being referential to being the reference, which is crazy.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

It can be hard to be your truest self on a virtual screen; it's definitely not the stage I'm used to.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I've never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy's day is somehow related to him letting people know that he's straight.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

Not living in fear is a form of activism.

— Bob the Drag Queen

A gay bar is absolutely a sanctuary and a safe house. It's the place where you feel welcome.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I actually really love the taste of a very sugary coffee; I'm one of those folks who is like, 'I would like a little coffee with my creamer.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm sad.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I like to, you know, add a little bit of my expression into my coffee - I was really doing French Vanilla for a minute, but I realized that the International Delight Caramel Macchiato: She's the girl for me.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

You know, people come up to me saying, 'Watching you gave me the courage to come out to my parents,' or, 'I watched you and I decided to start doing drag,' or, people will just come up and say, 'It's you.' Like they can't even form sentences because they're crying because they're seeing someone they admired on television.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I'm home maybe five days a month, but they're never next to each other.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the 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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

For me, success doesn't feel weird; it feels right. When I wasn't on TV, I was like, this is the weird part.

— Bob the 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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

The majority of my life is not competing on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' so if anything, that was unusual.

— Bob the Drag Queen

If queer people are nothing, we are strong.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

Sometimes I write for other drag queens.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I produce content for a few people, actually, between Peppermint and Marti Gould Cummings and different local queens in New York City.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

I think if you want to drag, you'll figure it out.

— Bob the Drag Queen

We live in a world where people want everything to be free.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

I'm not a singer, but I do have a creative mind.

— Bob the Drag Queen

No one lives their lives not making jokes about things.

— Bob the Drag Queen

Drag music is music. And it's okay for me to call it drag music because for me that has value.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

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?

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I did not spend a lot of money. I realistically spent maybe, maybe $3,000 to go on 'Drag Race.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

The process of going on 'Drag Race' is, in my opinion, more than a fiscal investment. It's cultural. It's the 'Game of Thrones' of reality TV.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

Just because you have a chosen family doesn't mean that your family threw you out.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I was really afraid to do one of those shows where like, gays go and make straight people's lives better and then they leave town.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I clean up real nice.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I have watched Peppermint for years and I know how smart and clever and funny she can be with a lip-sync.

— Bob the Drag Queen

Well, I got into the business to make people laugh and to entertain people. I've always loved the idea that I could make someone happy and help someone really enjoy their day.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

— Bob the Drag Queen

Tidicue is not my real last name. It's just T-D-Q, as in 'The Drag Queen.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

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

— Bob the Drag Queen

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on 'Drag Race' I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win 'Drag Race' before I was even cast. I'm not even being funny. I'm being serious.

— Bob the Drag Queen

We need more Black, cisgender straight men to be willing to come out and say: 'I stand with Black trans people.'

— Bob the Drag Queen

Ben Nye is bussin'. Bussin'! It is genuinely great makeup, but because people think that it's just for plays, they don't consider it.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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.

— Bob the Drag Queen

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