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RuPaul Charles

lines on the record: 71
first: 2018-01-17
most recent: 2018-01-17
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I see a person who is a seeker. I see a person who is looking for some joy, some laughs. I like the lighter things of life. I like the music and the colors and the smells. I like love. I like those things. And I like to stay away from the dark stuff. It's there, but I tend to go to the light side.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm that kid. I love to dance. I love to laugh. Those are my two favorite things to do on this planet. I laugh a lot. Don't get to dance as much as I want to.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Freckles You know, it's interesting. I've spent so much time putting on makeup and using my body for a living. Initially I look at it as part of my work. But then when I look at the mirror with my heart, I still see that little boy who loved to dance. You know, there's that song at Stevie Wonder from Hotter Than July. I think it's called Like I Do or something where it talks about Little Baby Brother used to dance and it ends with him breaking a lamp and says, oh, you done broke Mama's lamp. You know that song? Yes, yes, yes.”
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“I think it first starts with me for me to experience this life and to enjoy it. And I think if I enjoy it, and I could possibly share with other people how to do it, how to have fun.”
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“I think it has to do with spending so much time alone. I am married and my husband has a huge, it's a 60,000 acre ranch. And he and I do very well on our own. He spends a lot, I'll see him later today, but we spend a lot of time alone. And I think to do this work, to do something really... Amazing. You have to spend a lot of time alone. I think that's the biggest sacrifice. I don't know how much of a sacrifice is because I really don't like being around a lot of people. You know, they get me nervous. I can fake it for a good long time of, hi, how you doing? Great. Hurt any good jokes lately, you know, but I'm really introvert masquerading as an extrovert.”
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“Stay in kindness and in love. That's the biggest decision I have to make every day. But you asked me what sacrifice I had to make to get where I am today.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my destiny, I don't think my destiny has really happened yet, but the choice. The most difficult choice I have to make is every day, which is choosing to be engaged, choosing to not succumb to the darkness, because I have it there. It's always there in my peripheral vision. Choosing to...”
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“The hardest lesson for me to learn in this life has been to let them be my father he couldn't have seen me because it would have forced him, if he saw me, it would have forced him to get in touch with his feelings, which were really heavy and really painful. And I understand that now. Back then, it really hurt my heart. But that was the hardest lesson I've learned, is that let those people who are shut down let them be. You know, like you go to a puppy that's come from an abusive place and you go to pet it and it goes. What can I do? I said, well, you can pray. That's about it. That's about it. Let them go and figure it out. It sounds harsh.”
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“That's a good question. I grew up with my father who, psychic once told me that he and I had shared past lives together, and that when I appeared in this life, I was like, hey, buddy, here we are again. We're going to rule the school. And he could not see me. He was shut down, shut down. And I said, okay, well, you want joy? I can give you some joy. Oh, you want to laugh? I got it. You want to dance? You know, this whole thing. And I, for years, was attracted to people who were shut down like that. And I felt my job was to, okay, what do you need? I got it for you. I got it. Let me remind you who you are.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's so simple. The fundamental rules of life, the life lessons that will help you navigate are very simple. We learn them in kindergarten. Be nice to other people. Be nice to yourself. Know thyself. Even me understanding about my addiction to being late, just really, like Jessica Fletcher on Murders Road, deducing, okay, what are the elements here? Because I don't want to be late. There it is. It's right there. Take that out. Everything's changed. Yeah.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, we have to remind them who they really are, and they are. God having a human spiritual experience on this planet, being human. So, and even having said that, you realize too that even the horrible things, the unspeakable things are a part of it if you take out judgment. Even the horrible things are a part of it. I don't want to be a part of those things. I want to be on the side of the lightness. But you know what I'm saying by that?”
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“I think so, all the things we talked about, I think it's first be kind to yourself and remember, because we all know this, you know, this is not something they have to learn. It's something they have to remember.”
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“We show them through example. You know, I don't have children of my own, but I do know that children learn by, they learn from their parents in ways that the parents don't know about. It's just watching them, watching them how they sip water or what they do with With their garbage or how they react to nudity or what someone says, it's all those things. So it's an inside job and we all have to pitch in on how we behave. And I think that's the key. We have to show them.”
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“Pairs of shoes, yeah. And I believed them. And I got, okay, I'm going to be a part of this. Yeah, unfortunately not so true. I see things on the new think what's going on, you know”
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“Well, you know, I have two older sisters who are seven years older than me. They were my world. Goddesses and they told me when I was a kid they said, Rue, the people in charge now are making it so that one day everyone on this planet will have eight pairs of shoes.”
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“It is an up. I'm tired. I'm exhausted by it. And I'm doing my part, but it is exhausting being an optimist because you think that people, I thought we were further along as humans on this planet. And you think, wait, did I just imagine that we were moving forward? I thought that we were further along. So it is exhausting. And sometimes after the mistake.”
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“I don't get to do that very well, I don't get to do that at all anymore. Once I got famous, it became, you know, it's a job.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a sense of humor. It's as simple as that. Like I said, there are different styles, different genres. I started with gender F word, drag, and then I did my soul trained dancer look, which I loved, you know. And then I landed on Glamazon because that's what pays the mortgage. But I think the most fun drag is the soul train dancer drag where it's high.”
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“I used to be the opposite. So you come during the day at lunchtime, dance for 30 minutes to cool in the gang, earthwind and fire, Stevie Wonder. I want to dance. When you see kids and they're like three and four, and they Bouncing up the wall. I was like, what can I do?”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is amazing And it's so fragile. It's so fragile. And that we're still here. You hear things all the time. I heard something today that had surgery, da, da, da, and you think, oh my goodness, I want to take care of it. I want to celebrate it. I want to dance. There's no place to dance. You know what I want to do? I want to open a daytime disco in Palm Springs, one of those old huge banks. It would be open like from 11 o'clock in the morning to say nine. I can't stay at past nine o'clock.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, to this day. And I'll go, that's amazing. And what's even funny is when I have the makeup put on, I'll see it. And I'll go, oh, great. But when I see it on TV, I go, oh, I see what you did. I see how you match that with that. That's another level of, oh, you know, so I think for everyday people, drag can help you understand many different levels of what you are and what this body is and how amazing It is to have a human body.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think it could teach everyday people about colors and tones and different levels of consciousness of how you see yourself. I think it's important, I know for me to, when I meditate, I go outside of my body and I see, oh look, that's me right there. Actually, even when I do drag, I'll see a picture and go, Is that me? That's crazy. Oh my god.”
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“I don't think so. I've been doing it for so long. No, no. You know, I think every day I'm on this planet. You know, it's not like time is real. It's like everything is happening at once, right now. It doesn't feel like, so whatever I may have been frustrated with 20 years ago is still there. And it'll go, hey, Roo, you know, and I'll go, Thanks for sharing. We're not doing that right now.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm doing and drag. I do with the kids on our show. I get to re-experience some of the frustrations that I had through Them trying to make it through the challenges. It reminds me, it awakens what it was like for me. And then I get to go ahead and tell them, hey, kiddo, this is what you're really going through. So I get to experience it through them.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To take care of it as much as I can, but that's what it teaches. And also, it teaches, you know, what's funny is to see a straight man in dragon. On our show, we do, we have this thing where we have the girls put guys in drag. And what emerges is really phenomenal. It's like watching, you never know if somebody's going to be a fun drunk or a mean drunk. Or fame is the same way, and when they get famous, are they going to be a mean famous or a fun famous, drag is the same way. Really, it doesn't hide who you are. Drag actually reveals who you are.”
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“I have learned a lot. First, just reiterates my initial statement, which is you're born naked and the rest is drag. What it teaches people is that none of this, all things are Paint, powder, you know, this body even is temporary.”
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“Yeah, this will work. And not only does it not work, it's what's really underneath the hood of that is your own self-loathing. That's what that's about.”
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“I think some are. I have a lot of hope with young people. I'm surprised people my age, older than me, who have reverted back to an old way of thinking, of thinking that we could go back to Jim Crow or some of the things that people that come out of people's mouth and think, what is wrong with you? Weren't you there when we did that?”
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“She's brilliant. But watching her, this character deduce what really went down. She puts all the pieces together. And in life, you have to do that. Especially if you want to protect your heart. If you want to navigate this life, you have to be able to see, like we talk about the different levels of consciousness, the lower frequency, high frequency, you've got to be able to move freely in all those frequencies.”
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“It takes some time. You have to be here long enough to be able to get that. But if you're smart, you see the patterns. I love watching Murder She Road.”
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“I think it's, first of all, I think it's who I am, but also my mother was very, very rebellious. She was the kind of person who said, you know, unless they pay your bills, you pay them bees no mind. And I believe that. And I was sweet, sensitive kid, so people would hurt my feelings. But you live on the planet long enough, you realize, baby, that had nothing to do with you. That's not your”
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“That's an interesting question because there's a part of the brain that we need to address. And we talk about this new emerging voice in the 21st century. We have to speak to that other side of the brain. The brain that says, you know, you still see people smoking cigarettes today. And you go, you know, we've been through this, right? You know what this is. What part of the brain says, yeah, come on, do it. We have to address that and we don't address that in our culture. And I think that is the next level of our evolution is understanding who we really are and being able to see. I mentioned I said I'm night, I'm day, I'm black, I'm white, I'm male, female. Seeing both sides of yourself or all the sides of yourself, I'm sure there may be more shades is the next level.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, a sweetie pie, a kind, forgiving. I don't know if you drive around here at traffic in LA. It brings out the worst in me. And when I can drive down Santa Monica Boulevard and I'm loving, that's when I'm in. Yeah, because I'm paying attention to everything. I'm looking at what people are doing. I'm looking at the woman crossing. I'm just that person. I'm aware. And so when I see everyone, you know, they're braiding each other's hair and doing their taxes behind the wheel, careening down the street and they're barbecuing in the...”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do the same thing. What you're doing, like one kid was anxious, she was anxious. I said, you're addicted to the anxiousness. You've got this, this challenge, you got this. You are addicted to being anxious. Now just, you know, ruminate on that for a minute. She came back later and said, that's it. Yeah, yeah. You know, I used to be late to places, and I realized that I was addicted to the rest of going, oh boy, oh shoot, oh shoot. When I let go of that addiction, I'll arrive 10 minutes early just to let bitches know who they working with. I'll write sometimes 15 minutes early. Because Anna Winter, I think she does that. She'll call a meeting for noon and she'll be there at 11.45.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are looking for something. It's almost like a religion or a way of life. They see the kids on our show overcome not only their personal adversities, but the challenges with the other kids on the show, and they realize, I can do that, or they identify with the other kids on the show. A lot of times I'll be, I go walk around the workroom with, and I ask the kids what they're doing in this challenge, and I'll break it down, you know what, listen.”
2018-01-17 · Oprah's Super Soul · RuPaul Charles: We’re All In Drag · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, there's a new breed of young people out there. There's a new voice. We do a convention called DragCon here in LA and in New York. And the kids who come, they don't identify as gay or straight. They are smart and they are looking for a voice, like almost a new belief system that transcends the 20th century that is completely of the 21st century. So I think that they found our show with all these different platforms that you can watch television on your phone and all these places. YouTube, yeah. YouTube around the world they watch it on our show on Netflix and stuff like that here obviously it's on terrestrial television but I think our show speaks to that forward thinking voice that emerging voice of young people who”
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“You know, it starts here. It starts here. And when I was in 10th grade, my 10th grade teacher told me, he said, RuPaul, don't take life too effing seriously. And I didn't get it then. I got it later. I did not get it then. But I learned to first laugh, don't take everything so seriously. And then be kind. Be kind because there's only one of us here. When you are dissing someone else, you're actually dissing yourself. And you've got to realize that that has an effect on you. Everything that you put out comes back to you. I mean, this is...”
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“Yeah, yeah. You know, I think the first, you start with realizing that our biggest misconception is thinking that we're separate from one another.”
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“I'm actually saying them to myself. Whenever I'm telling anyone, hey, kiddo, there's a scene in Witches of Eastwick where one of the characters falls off the banister and they say to her, Jane, laugh, laugh, Jane, laugh. And she levitates off the ground. So I always try to remind people, she doesn't hit the ground. She falls. She doesn't hit the ground. She levitates because of the laughter, which I think is the most powerful spell you can cast.”
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“No. I'm night and day black and white. Do you have to work at it? Absolutely every day. I meditate. I stretch. I go to the gym. You know, when I'm saying those things out loud on the show.”
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“And it's just an interesting concept you were talking about earlier that density. It's an interesting concept to sort of break some of that up and to be a force on this planet to open that up. And I think we try to do that with our show.”
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“Yeah, and listen, I didn't come up with any of this stuff. This is what I've learned to navigate and maintain an equilibrium on this dense plane. I saw that kid, the Hollywood Medium. And you know that we live in a lower frequency. The spirit world is a high frequency, and the mediums can go in between.”
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“Absolutely. And these are all the things that in my career I've been able to do. They look up to me because I've been doing this for a long time. So we put them through these challenges. And it really, the real challenge is for them to be willing to die and become reborn. Through these challenges, a lot of times one kid, we had a comedy challenge and she's like, well, I'm not funny. I'm not a comedy queen. Listen, what you do with your makeup, what you do when you're lip syncing, apply that to comedy. You've got it. She got out there funny, funny, funny. And that is true for everyone. Like I said, there's only one of us here on this planet. We are so connected. We're just one thing. So if you can apply what you know really well in another area to this area, which you think you may not know, You got something.”
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“Yeah, yeah. These kids, you know, we set up a situation on this competition reality show where we challenge them to go beyond their own limited perception of themselves. And these are all the greatest.”
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“I'm surprised when people don't know it. I'm surprised when they're so disconnected that they don't realize, oh, there's really just one of us here.”
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“You know, my mother was very religious, but she was not into organized religion. She didn't go to church. She could quote the Bible. But, you know, it's like... It's like being a fish and wondering if water really exists. I didn't have to become having a spiritual awakening. I'm spiritual. I can feel it.”
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“Years of therapy to get there, but you know, I'm from San Diego, and I grew up in the 70s with the whole self-help thing. So I read, even as a teenager, I was reading all those self-help books. I'm okay, you're okay, you know, all of them. And I think it's a California thing too. But I was always a seeker.”
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“I was a stoplight yesterday, and a woman was walking down the street, not looking at a phone. She was just contemplating her life. And I wanted to roll the window and I said, hey lady, I love you. Everybody's doing this.”
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“The void came from knowing that there was something more. I talked earlier about wanting to find my tribe, wanting to find other people who I could say, did you see that? Did you feel that? Most people are really not there.”
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“Well, you figure it out by hitting your head up against the wall really, really hard, and you're thinking when you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, you really do find a solution. I realized early on I was a seeker. So I continued to seek, and I knew that the only place I could find that would feel that God-sized hole was with me.”
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