Karamo Brown Quotes
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We must do our part to make ourselves visible to the world. Let everyone see that being a queer parent of color is normal and happening right next door to them.
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I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.
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The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay and trans people of color.
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My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.
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The black community can be competitive and cautious when it comes to those we want put on display for the world to see and judge. We are a prideful people who believe that anything that will make us seem 'less than' should be hidden.
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We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside.
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Most people have never been listened to, and they've never been asked questions that they want to be asked.
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By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.
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The funny thing is, we teach - as a culture, we teach people that it's OK to talk about your fitness goals... Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one's talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier.
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When people hear my story, my hope is always that they start to believe that the life they want is possible for them, because I am living the life I've always dreamed.
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Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.
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Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a way that doesn't make me feel comfortable, or they try to manipulate me into being a caricature of myself.
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Life experiences with oppression and homophobia often become internalized and can have detrimental effects on the development of positive sexual identity for Southern black gay men.
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There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.
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When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults.
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While the Internet has allowed for some extraordinary progress in creating conversations about diversity, it also allows uninformed comments that one has made in the past to live forever.
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Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.
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I would say for our straight allies, your job is to listen and not judge. Then, listen and not act.
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Its rare to see a proud and out LGBT person win an Oscar in a lead or supporting actor role.
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My background is in social work and psychotherapy.
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My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.
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My goal has always been to help as many people as I can.
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Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives.
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What does culture mean? It's not a physical thing. I love a museum, but that, for me, doesn't make you a better person.