Quotes About Culture

It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this new environment, and I had an English accent.

In the gay community there are not very many Jewish drag queens. I've always found that funny because there are a lot of Jewish gay people out there, so why aren't there more Jewish drag queens?

Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

Historically a publicly unaccepted but incredibly rich culture, queer love was only able to exist privately for a long time, expressed in society through coded art forms.

'Queer as Folk' is gay gay gay gay gay.

Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?

It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.

When I was growing up, there weren't that many queer girls of colour making music. So I just wanted to be able to exist, just to be that, without putting too much emphasis on it.

I was raised in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. And I think that has practically everything to do with, you know, my formative years. I'm also black. So, this is what we're talking about, intersectionality, right? I'm also queer. And I'm also non-binary. And I think all these cultures have contributed to every essence of my being.

I'm a big fan of World of Wonder in general. They really are the queens of queer culture.

The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

The question of hegemony is always the question of a new cultural order.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.

I've learned that it's often the less obvious, yet pervasive and questionable, everyday behaviors of men in our industry that collectively make it inhospitable for women.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

I was born to Haitian parents, and the idea of giving back is really just a part of our culture. So, I don't think there was ever a moment that I questioned my call to philanthropy, but I can say that the more I've grown, the bigger that call has become.