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" I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics. "

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" 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. "

" Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself. "

" I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new ways of performing them. "

" A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny. "

" Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. "

" 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. "

" It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision. "

" My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those. "

" People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. "

" Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. "

" 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. "

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" I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula. "

" There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness. "

" People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show. "

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" Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance. "

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" '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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