Lettin it All Hang Out Quotes

“We're born naked, and the rest is drag.”
― Rupaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process—picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“But I will not be ignored. The soul that lives inside this body will not be ignored. I am here to stay.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“Whenever I went to hug her she would say, "Get your hands off of me." But I would say, "Nope, nope, nope, hug, hug, hug!" and she'd just have to put up with it.

I think she liked it, really.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“We learn about how to enslave the soul and how to enslave our brothers, by buying and selling things, buying and selling each other. But we can only go to the moon so many times, we can only do so much and buy so much. My sisters would tell me when I was growing up that in the future every body in our society was going to have eight pair of shoes. The idea was the that The People In Charge are going to make it better for the other people....I realized this wasn't going to happen. The Fat Controllers are only making it better for themselves. If they have their own way they will have eight million pairs of shoes, and everyone else will have to go without.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“Some of the most unforgettable women in the world are men, like Billy Beyond, who walks in all the Todd Oldham shows, Connie Girl for Thierry Mugler, and Lypinska for Gaultier. The point is that drag is pure glamor too.”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“I do not exaggerate when I say that I never went to one class while I was there. Annette Benning was going there too, and I suppose had I gone to class I might have met her, married her, and she'd be having my babies instead of Warren's!”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography

“So many times I've gotten a run in my hose just as I'm running out the door -- late! They've sent monkeys to the moon, why can't they invent panty hose that don't run?”
― RuPaul, Lettin it All Hang Out: An Autobiography