Quotes About Empowerment

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.

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.

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.

I love St. Vincent. She is like our queer rock goddess and that's so needed.

Drag Race' was, like, my outlet and finally being able to see myself in television and that was through Manila Luzon, who was a 'Drag Race' contestant. Manila was the first Asian queer person that I ever saw on mainstream media and 'Drag Race' really did that for me.

If queer people are nothing, we are strong.

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

After the 'Fallon' set, I had a lot of queer people message me about how much it meant to see a queer perspective on late night TV.

We need folks who are queer or trans, to have an opportunity to tell their story.

I always assumed that my otherness was a curse - that I would be held back by my Asian and queer identities.

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

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

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

I always used to play with the boys and loved it. You never asked yourself the question if there should be a difference between a boy or a girl.

I don't ever want my daughter growing up questioning who she is or her choices. I want her to be a strong, happy individual.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.

Watching people getting absorbed in news, I have learned that if the media wants, it can empower citizens with its brave questions. It can make India's democracy more alive.

My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.