“You know, people come up to me saying, 'Watching you gave me the coura...” — Bob the Drag Queen Quote

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.

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

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.

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.

But I've always admired Tamil and Malayalam films, and language isn't a barrier for me.

I have admired Jurgen Klopp for a long time because his teams play fantastic football, and he is a fantastic person.

What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women's sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.

Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.