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After taking home a fourth straight Emmy for Best Reality Host in 2019, RuPaul addressed a reporter backstage who asked about drag's importance now versus ten years ago.
"Drag is dangerous. Drag is not politically correct," RuPaul started. "I know people say, ‘Oh, you mainstreamed it,' drag will never be mainstream....the deeper level of drag is all about you're born naked, and the rest is drag. And that's very political, it's very punk rock. It's very radical."
"You are the extension of the power that created the whole universe," he continued. "We are all God in drag.