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" The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side. "

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" I'd say my fashion or beauty tip is to take the thing about you that makes you most distinctive and then exaggerate it. So if you have a little bushy unibrow, make it a dramatic unibrow. If you're balding, go completely bald. "

Sasha Velour

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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. "

Sasha Velour

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" I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous. "

" I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules. "

" I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn. "

" 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. "

" Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that. "

" I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag. "

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

" I want to do performance that inspires people to be true to themselves and has tangible impact on the community. Not just because I want to be a role model - I just think it's the best way to honor the tradition of drag. "

" It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot. "

Sasha Velour

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" I've always been committed to tuning out the trends of drag and doing styles and fashions and performances that are really true to what I love, to the movie references I've always loved, fashion that speaks to me for whatever reason - no matter what people say. "

Sasha Velour

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

" Right when I was starting to experiment with drag, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, and during her chemo treatment, she lost all of her hair. And for her, the idea of being a fem with no hair was really difficult. "

" 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. "

" Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Even though I present myself at the height of glamour and beauty, part of my truth is being desperate and emotional and unafraid of being unattractive. "

" There are so many voices that tell people, especially queer people, that they don't have importance and regality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age. "

" I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking about. "

" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "

" For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything. "

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

Sasha Velour

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