BeBe Zahara Benet Quotes

'RuPaul's Drag Race'... is very little about boys who dress up in girls' clothing: it's very much about grit, integrity, heart, power of perseverance, and the power of love. It's also opening a dialogue up about the persecution and the marginalization of trans people, of queer people, of gender non-binary and gender fluid people.

The reason the rainbow flag endures is because people own it. It means something to them.

Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through beauty and positivity and lip-syncing our favorite pop songs, then let's do it.

I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.

'Drag Race' is a movement. I'll be forever grateful that I left my legacy.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

Everyone who passes through 'Drag Race,' and especially the people who are able to have really big careers after the show, has a responsibility to the queer community to do a good job of representing queer people across the board to be kind and loving.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

The Olympics is a cool opportunity to represent our country, which is amazing. But I have another community I am competing for, and that is the LGBT community.

When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.

'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and I want to showcase the whole community I know.

We need to reach out to more Canadians to show them that they could see themselves reflected in our party.

I'll be the first to thank RuPaul, who gave me the money and let me out into the world. RuPaul is an excellent role model. I'm talking about someone who has worked hard in the business for quite some time. RuPaul put gay men in wigs into people's living rooms. RuPaul is the reason that we're not threatening.

As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

My visibility may have gotten Hollywood to redefine what's attractive.

Our politics is about people not flags.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.