Quotes About Drag

We have such an amazing drag community, and I don't think people fully realize it about Seattle.

Bill Clinton, who packs his own star power, has been a big draw as well as a big drag on his wife's campaign.

I probably have over a hundred pairs of high-heel shoes. I collect them. Over however-many years, from, like, the mid-'80s on - yes, I'm that old - I've been in drag several times in my life, and I collect a lot of stuff, and I do have a lot of high-heel shoes that I'm sure a lot of people would be jealous about.

stronger than he looked but it was still a strain to drag the drop cloth–wrapped corpse through the house and out the back

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

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

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

My experience started in the gay nightlife/drag life. I was just as consumed in ignorance about what is offensive to transpeople because at that time I hadn't found myself. I was living as a drag performer only.

What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.

As a drag performer, people have traditionally put us into the category of 'pervert' or 'deviant' or things like that. So I've always been really careful not to be vulgar or grotesque with sexuality.

There are many times where we lose faith in our country and ourselves, and I think drag is definitely a form of entertainment and a form of hope that tells us we have to hope for a brighter future.

I think that's what happens when drag starts to go mainstream: All of a sudden, you're watching 'The View' and there are three drag queens on there and it's not a joke. Yes, we're here, we're queer and you better deal with it. 'Cause we ain't going nowhere.

My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love suits and anything sharp, and I know that shape suits me. I don't feel feminine in floaty dresses with spaghetti straps - I feel more like Freddie Mercury in drag.

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

I'm a drag queen. I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

Drag will always be a dynamic and powerful art form, and it is my duty now to honor the artists who have come before me while continuing to pioneer my own path and history by being open to growth and change as a human and a drag superstar.

In the drag community it's mostly women in the audience, even for burlesque. I think people look at strippping as a male gaze thing and I think the actual neo-classical burlesque community is more about women supporting women and their creativity, along with freedom of expression.

I love Kim Chi the drag queen from 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' but I'm not sure about the food.

The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the positive good things in your life will resonate faster and faster.