I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.