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" I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform. "
Sasha Velour
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" I'm an only child; I'm a very private person. "
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Only
Person
" Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space. "
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Space
World
" I love that drag is political. For me, one of the reasons I started doing drag was reading about how in the past, drag performers were able to organize the queer community and move us forward. "
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Past
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" Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class, because those things continued to be redefined for us. Drag operates along similar lines. "
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Language
Place
" It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision. "
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Present
Vision
Important
" As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.' "
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Gender
Fashion
Art
" I've found that embracing the things that make me a little strange and different from other people, and learning to love that, makes me feel beautiful and fashionable every day. "
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Day
Love
People
" I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag. "
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Anything
Drag
New
" The cities that I go to where I can tell that they have a lot of different types of drag, I tell them that they remind me of Brooklyn, and I mean that as the highest compliment in the entire world. "
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Compliment
Brooklyn
World
" Drag performance is really emotional. "
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Emotional
Really
Performance
" 'Drag Race' has made a lot more people into fans of drag, and that's allowed local communities to grow and flourish, but it's up to individual queens to share the spotlight with their communities. I definitely want to be one of the people who does that. "
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Grow
More
People
" I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn. "
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Ambassador
Brooklyn
Want
" Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring. "
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Boring
Very
Interesting
" I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia. "
Sasha Velour
College
Russia
Literature
" The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty. "
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People
Mom
Place
" My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely. "
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Flipping
Drag
Favorite
" '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. "
Sasha Velour
Want
Race
Know
" The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising. "
Sasha Velour
Race
Very
Audience
" People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them. "
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Flexible
People
More
" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "
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Deep
Want
Thinker
" Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag! "
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People
Love
Experience
" I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest. "
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Play
Drag
Audience
" I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well. "
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See
Want
Kings
" Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. "
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Anyone
Absolutely
Drag
" Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place. "
Sasha Velour
Place
Unfortunately
World
" Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful. "
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Should
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" Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it's a celebration of all that we've accomplished. "
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Way
" I want to follow in RuPaul's footsteps, which is that combination of not just personal stardom but to really transform myself into a producer of drag. That's the way to make a lasting impact on the world of drag and... to make actual differences in the queer community. I think there's no better model for that than RuPaul. "
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Think
Myself
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" Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems. "
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Looks
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