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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For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.
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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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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 favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'
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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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There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.
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I hate chapped lips.
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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 own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors.
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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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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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I was 15 years old when I came out.
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Most of the time, people are afraid of silence, and I'm not.
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Love is love, and people need to just accept that.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.