American - Entertainer | 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.
Karamo Brown
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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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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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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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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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