Quotes About Empowerment

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

These are truly special days we live in - where a clown in a gown can make her very own drag queen revenge-comedy.

I like Queen Latifah.

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.

I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.

I don't think being Latin queen is a disadvantage.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

My dad is known as the king of tyres in the tyre industry and he is a completely self-made man. And if I were to join the business, I would be called the queen of tyres the next day.

I definitely think that I, as a drag queen, can endure pain a lot better than most people.

I always say that the most resourceful people in the world are drag queens.

I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.

In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.

I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story.

'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.'

I just want to be a shining leader for the LGBTQIA-plus community. Drag queens have always been the leaders of the community.

There's no union for drag queens.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

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

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

I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.

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.

Not all drag queens but certainly the ones who empowered me, are people who pushed buttons, and poked fun at society from Leigh Bowery, to Lady Bunny and Divine.

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.