GuRu

by RuPaul

Try a look from a different era.

STOP TRYING TO FIT IN

WHEN YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT.

Now is the time. Your body is a temple. Serve it and it will serve you well.

As boys, we were taught to fit our emotions into this tiny little box, because that somehow makes other people feel more comfortable. But I never wanted to do that.

I feel bad for men in our culture. I think we do everyone a disservice by hiding our emotions.

You are heir to the laws of the world you identify with.

“Give Bitches a Break”

“THE HIGHEST FORM OF WISDOM IS KINDNESS.” —THE TALMUD

Be the star that you are. Shine, baby, shine!

Save yourself the headache of combining two locations and two attitudes into one day.

Those are your gifts.

Even better is the ability to decipher your sense of knowing.

Drag really is all about dipping into pop culture and then reshaping it into something else.

Because here’s the thing—having money and fame only enhances what you already are.

Personal relationships are the same way. One person cannot be all things to you like one-stop shopping at a massive superstore.

Starrbooty is strong, compassionate, vulnerable, kind, and powerful.

I love stories of people who, against all odds, triumph in an unjust world while looking fabulous and kicking serious ass.

“stickwithitness” it takes to withstand the rejection and humiliation of putting yourself out there to be judged and traded on the open market.

After eleven years of “the hard yards” I finally got my big break.

You’re actually stronger than you allow yourself to be.

also meditate by focusing on my breathing.

I hear the voice of my darkness, and I say thanks for sharing, lover, but I’m going to do the opposite of what you’re saying.

It’s important for me to be self-sufficient.

Staying flexible, both figuratively and literally, is what being vital is all about.

Knowledge is power. Defend your children by giving them the power of knowledge.

TO UNDERSTAND HUMANS, YOU MUST STUDY THEM AS A

SPECIES OF ANIMAL.

And sometimes you have to leave family members behind.

I am here to be a conduit. I know how to make magic.

the frequency that runs through and connects each of us.

You must clear a path within yourself for that frequency to live in you and so that your body can communicate that to the world.

Strangely, that first relationship with my parents is still a touchstone for heartbreak.

This is also true for people who are unkind to other people—you have to realize that the unkindness that those people are projecting outwardly at innocent people is just a fraction of what they’re doing to themselves.

The Wizard of Oz

The Matrix

Airplane!

Young Frankenstein

Two Can Play That Game