I always said if I played a drag queen, I’d want to create a template with the realness they talk about in ‘Paris Is Burning.’ Billy Porter Read Quote
I’m in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It’s empowering. Billy Porter Read Quote
There was a time in the ’90s where, as an African-American man, you had to be a misogynistic R&B star or a rapper, and I didn’t fit into either one of those. I was advised by my label to remain closeted at that time. Billy Porter Read Quote
For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering. Billy Porter Read Quote
When you’re doing what you love, it’s not exhausting at all, actually. It’s completely empowering and exhilarating. Billy Porter Read Quote
I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn’t go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind. Billy Porter Read Quote
You can’t ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else’s energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being. Billy Porter Read Quote