Karamo Brown Quotes

Karamo Brown

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 2, 1980

Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced.

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Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

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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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Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

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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.

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Literally, I look back on it now, and I often think to myself, 'Karamo you should have done better.' But that's the thing: when you're in that dark space, you can't do any better. And it's for people around you to say, 'You know what? I need to check in with you and be there to support you.'

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I know a lot of people who are depressed, and they walk around, and they're smiling every day, but no one's asking them how they're really doing.

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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.

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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 was 15 years old when I came out.

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We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

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We have to continue to do the work, because we can't see people lose their lives over senseless gun violence.

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Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.

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I want a big wedding.

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I will kick my best friend out of the way if RuPaul wants to stand next to me as my best man.

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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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I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

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I own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors.

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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 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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