Karamo Brown Quotes
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Bomber jackets, for me, are the new blazers. They're something I can wear with suit pants or slacks - or I can go really urban with it. I think, as men, we don't have the little black dress that women do to go from day to nighttime, but the bomber can be the LBD for men.
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
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Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes.
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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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I would like to encourage hip hop artists to invite those of us who are in the queer spaces in, so we can have those conversations. I love hip hop. If you bring me in the studio, I know how to act. And we can talk about what's not cool because, clearly, there's still homophobia that penetrates in all these areas.
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My main thing is obviously mental health and well-being, and then my second passion would be politics; the third would be fashion.
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My life is an open book. There is nothing to hide here.
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I hate chapped lips.
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Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.
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My father loved me and was devoted to me until he knew I was gay, and then our relationship went south. So I always make sure that I let my sons know that I will love them, no matter what they do or who they become, for the rest of their lives.
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I think dating apps are keeping us apart.
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My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'
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Love is love, and people need to just accept that.
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I think it's just so important that parents actually really study the apps on the phones and figure out what's going on.
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There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.
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I like walking into a home where each room has a slight scent that doesn't overpower the room and doesn't spread through the whole house.
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Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.
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I own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors.
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In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too!
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Facebook Algorithms have got us all screwed up, where we only listen and talk to people with the same views as us, and I think it's not helping us as a culture to grow.
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We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.
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We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let's get more gay black men; let's get more trans women.
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My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I'm from.
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I was 15 years old when I came out.