Bob the Drag Queen > Quotes

“There's something about being told you're worthy from another person that feels better than when you tell yourself in a mirror.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“Yo history is yours, and can’t nobody take that from you.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“Religion is the biggest scam on the face of the planet, followed closely by higher education in America.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“They call you lazy even though you work more than you sleep, they call you stupid even though you engineered food from garbage, and they call you dangerous without acknowledging their hand in the matter.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“Maybe it’s all part of God’s plan.”

“If this is the plan, then God hates Black people.”
― Bob the Drag Queen

“The biggest disservice they ever did to their own cause was convincing themselves we was stupid.”
― Bob the Drag Queen

“Black folks can't sit here and end racism and slavery in America. This is a white folks problem. White folks the ones that created this system and they gon' have to take part in its undoing.”
― Bob the Drag Queen

“Chile, even house slaves wanna run. You don’t even wanna know what you gotta do to stay in the house when you a pretty girl like Odessa. She helped take part in her own liberation that night and ain’t never looked back since. Plus, this child can sing.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“I don't usually fall over my words like this, but this is a dream come true.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“She wears pain, pride, and dignity on her face all at once.”
― Bob the Drag Queen

“Harriet Tubman, 1820–1913,” I read. She lived to ninety-three years old! She looks anywhere between forty and seventy, but ninety-three could be possible. She’s got that Cicely Tyson kind of aged but ageless face. I keep reading, “The ‘Moses of her people,’ Harriet Tubman of the Bucktown District found freedom for herself and some three hundred other slaves whom she led north. In the Civil War she served the Union Army as a nurse, scout, and spy.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“She does not look like she has had an easy life. But at the same time she truly looks like she is conquering it. She wears pain, pride, and dignity on her face all at once.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“mouth—I take him to my favorite record store, Luke’s on 135th. They have the best selection in the city and they’re kept open by the grace of someone’s god and a rent-controlled storefront.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“Well”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

“The General. The Conductor. Moses. Harriet Tubman has more nicknames than Lil Wayne. “If I tell you I’m coming to pick you up, you best believe I’ll see you there,” Weezy F. Tubman says.”
― Bob the Drag Queen, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert