Culture Quote by RuPaul Download Open image “Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.” — RuPaul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Drag Illusion Seriously Take
Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously. — RuPaul Copy Share
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… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I think - I know - the normalization of drag and drag culture has definitely opened up people's minds in some parts of the… — Aquaria Copy Share Image
Drag is all about taking references, taking pop culture and flipping it on its head. — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
There are many times where we lose faith in our country and ourselves, and I think drag is definitely a form of entertainment and… — Aquaria Copy Share Image
Drag is something real. We're so fake that something real actually comes through. — Alaska Copy Share Image
Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
For both men and women, an eyelash curler is a must. It gives your eye the appearance of being well-rested and wide open. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses? — RuPaul Copy Share Image
La Flavour's 'Mandolay' is a disco classic - I dare you to sit still while listening to it. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
