Karamo Brown Quotes

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Equality ... is the result of human organization.... We are not born equal.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.