Chi Chi DeVayne Quotes

One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ it’s the other one, ‘Still I Rise.’

I’m a performing queen.

My drag is that real Southern dragged-out style of drag.

Well, it’s hard for me to call anybody my ‘friend’ because when I say ‘friend,’ like, I’m from the South and friends have grown up with you, went to school with you, stuff like that.

Like I said, I’ve always been a lazy drag queen. I’m actually a boy and I hate dressing up. I don’t hate it. It’s fun, but it’s not something that I like doing all the time.

I was doing drag as just a hobby on the weekends to let my hair down. I never thought of drag was going to be my career and what I would be doing for the rest of my life. Once I made it onto ‘Drag Race,’ I’m like, ‘Oh, OK – this is my calling.

Not accepting where I came from, and who I am as a person, the voice, you know, the appearance, the everything. ‘Drag Race’ has opened my eyes to see there’s so much more than where I came from and to, like, not hold that against myself.

I really don’t do celebrity impersonations at all.

I want to show the fans that I do have a voice, as well as I’m a great rapper.

I did a Christmas tour and I sang on that and the response I got was people want to hear more of Chi Chi’s voice.

I did good in Season 8 ‘Snatch Game,’ but it was horrible, cringe-y to watch.

I wish that I had the guts to stand up for gay rights.

When I’m pressured, I have to click into survival mode.

I want to do music, film, acting – all of that kind of stuff.

In the beginning, believe it or not, me and Acid Betty were good friends.

I would always come back to ‘Drag Race.’ Whatever they want me for, I’ll come back.

I would tell little Zavion Davenport that it doesn’t matter where you’re from and how you grew up, the neighborhood you grew up in.

I wanted to prove to people that I can make great costumes.

I’m Chi Chi, and everybody knows when I get on stage, it’s magical.

I love to get on stage and burn it up.

I have to be obedient to my fans and come on back and give ’em everything that they want.

A lot of people don’t know this, but I sing.

A lot of the stuff I was on ‘All Stars,’ it wasn’t new, it was all stuff out of my closet and stuff that I made myself.

I didn’t know there was an extra ‘a’ in Maya Angelou! I spelled it like ‘Mya’ the singer.

I think people are becoming more receptive to the alternative styles of drag.