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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Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.
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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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I think dating apps are keeping us apart.
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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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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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Love is love, and people need to just accept that.
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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 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 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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My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'
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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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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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There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.
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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 own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors.
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What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.
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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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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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The worst thing about our political system is that people debate; I wish our politicians were able to talk to each other rather than scream while trying to gain sound bites.