I always tell the parents, ‘You don’t have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.’ Michelle Visage Read Quote
I get tons of emails every day from a lot of gays and young girls asking for help with their self-confidence and to heal and to feel. Even though I’m not an equipped social worker, I think the mom presence that I have makes them feel safe. Michelle Visage Read Quote
You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I’ve looked it right back and said, ‘No.’ Michelle Visage Read Quote
I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called ‘face,’ and it was a very heavily Latino culture – it’s black and Latino – and they used to call me ‘cara,’ which means face in Spanish, so I started putting ‘cara’ on everything: hats, jackets. Michelle Visage Read Quote
You don’t have to give up your dreams in order to earn a living – they can go hand in hand. Michelle Visage Read Quote
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. Michelle Visage Read Quote
There are different types of people in this world, and I am the type of person who loves to give. Michelle Visage Read Quote
For the kids out there that are worried about what the future holds, especially the LGBTQI+ kids, our brothers and sisters that came before us didn’t fight for nothing. Trust me: we will only move forward, but you need to put your fear aside and find the strength to believe that. Michelle Visage Read Quote
