Best of Bob the Drag Queen's "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert"

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen

I think I'm starting to see it now. Now I understand why this seems like such a big moment. To realize that there is more than just one existence, that there's more to life than being someone else's property. To realize that you are your own person, capable of your own actions, able to create your own dreams, and with them, your own world. These are the little things we don't consider if we were never enslaved, things you don't even bother to think about when you are born free.

p. 38-39

"Christianity always felt more like a punishment than a religion. It's a religion that has been forced on us and used as a tool to keep us poor and subservient for hundreds of years. So I'm sure that y'all can understand if I don't subscribe."

p. 57

She would always sit me down and tell me that freedom is earned, and you have to work to keep it. I was constantly reminded that Black people have to work twice as hard to get half the pay.

p. 64

"The reason we was going around to all the rallies and meetings in churches and tents was because people can't do better if they don't know better. We knew we had to tell our stories. Plus, 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."

p. 105

"Keeping Black folks oppressed is only half the battle," she continues, sitting on the edge of her bed. "The richest of white folks have also convinced the poorest of white folks that if Blacks was to become equal, if Black folks got rights, if Black folks was seen on the same level as white folks, that it would somehow be bad for them."

p. 105-106

"The folks that could afford slaves were sure as hell not fighting in the war. Instead, it was poor and uneducated white people, and Blacks being convinced or forced by the ones with all the money. You gotta keep folks ignorant if you wanna control them. That's why they didn't want us reading or writing."

p. 106

"When I help Black folks get to freedom, I don't ask them a bunch of questions about who they love and what they do. I only concern myself with where they need to go. You understand me? The biggest struggle in earning your freedom is feeling like you deserve it. Sometimes we feel like we ain't worth putting in the work."

p. 172