Top 38 Quotes & Sayings by Chi Chi DeVayne

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Zavion Michael Davenport, better known by the stage name Chi Chi DeVayne, was an American drag queen and reality television personality who came to international attention on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. DeVayne began her drag career in her native Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was known locally prior to her 2016 debut on Drag Race. Following her time on the show, DeVayne embarked on a number of domestic and international tours, and she was featured on several web series about drag. Davenport was diagnosed with scleroderma in 2018 and, two years later, he died following a bout of pneumonia he contracted after a hospital stay for scleroderma-related kidney failure.

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Cardi B or Tiffany Haddish from 'Girl's Trip,' I think I could play those two.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

To me, I was celebrating the accomplishment of making it on 'All Stars' and doing the best I could. There was no way I could leave being bitter or sad about achieving another girl, accomplishing things that no one else has had the opportunity to do. I was just in a good place. And it was so stressful.

Chi Chi DeVayne

Once we're done filming, we're all buddy buddy, laying all over each other and grooming each other and just helping each other out. They never show any of that kind of stuff. You can't do RuPaul's Best Friends Race!

Chi Chi DeVayne

I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit of a voice.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.

Chi Chi DeVayne

I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

In high school, I was in the band and I was a percussionist, but I always used to watch the girls dance. I used to want to be on the team so bad.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

Everybody knows me for my famous lip-syncs, 'I'm Telling You,' and a few more on top of that.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

Fans are crazy, so I try not to pay attention to most of the negativity that they bring up.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.'

Chi Chi DeVayne

Girl, I've seen people shot. I've smelled, like, the smell of brains. When I tell you I come from the streets, I'm not kidding.

Chi Chi DeVayne

People loved me because I'm a great person to be friends with, but when it comes down to drag, I didn't want them to think badly of me.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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.

Chi Chi DeVayne

I love to get on stage and burn it up.

Chi Chi DeVayne

I've always wanted to do Broadway.

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

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

Chi Chi DeVayne

I don't know, maybe I have a sixth sense or something.

Chi Chi DeVayne