Sasha Velour Quotes

It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people.

I love drag queens and they love me.

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.

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.

There is something about the art form and about drag entertainers that is very uplifting.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

Drag has always made me feel less scared.

I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.

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

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

'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and I want to showcase the whole community I know.

Drag is a gift.

There are no limits to what kind of bodies, which types of people, which genders, or what races can do amazing drag, and I think the audience is clamoring fighting with each other more and more to see drag represented as fully as it possibly can be.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.

Since we get so much love and support from the queer community around the world, we really wanted to connect with U.S. audiences too and put on amazing shows wherever we can!

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

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.'

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I love wearing drag.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.