RuPaul Quotes

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

Philosophers are men hired by the well-to-do to prove that everything is all right.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black Americans, have consistently occupied lower rungs in the American social hierarchy.

It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.