The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

I think that I learned something about how even tragedy can be a means of grace that I might never have come to any other way.

You've been a good steward of it. You've been a good steward of your pain.

My day has been a pleasant one. My joys have far exceeded my sorrows and my friends have brought me far more than my enemies have taken from me.

I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of.