Sasha Velour Quotes

When it comes to drag, my favorite thing we can do is kind of push against the beauty standards of magazines. We don't need to look like supermodels. That what really makes drag special and makes it unique and makes it queer.

Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

If I was a man, I would be a drag queen. Honestly, I would. I absolutely love it.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I love wearing drag.

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people and redrew the boundaries of taste, beauty, and eroticism around her masculinity, ebony skin, and unrelenting intensity.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

Sometimes if you're dealing with straight interviewers they're a little more excited if you're in drag: 'Oooh! Aaaah! Eeeee!' But if you're just sitting there out of drag, they think you're just a bitter queen.