Karamo Brown Quotes

Many people see my early work simply as portraits of black and brown people. Really, it's an investigation of how we see those people and how they have been perceived over time.

People label you the way they know you best.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

I think that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.

There were so few examples of Asian or Asian-American lead characters on American TV or even in the movies. And the ones that have existed for so long were either stereotypical or offensive in some way, or just not reflective of the lives of people in the community.

Cyborg represents not just people who are differently abled: he is also a representation of the black community and people of colour within the Justice League. Being able to don both those mantles with the integrity which that character would need to be portrayed and was adhered to was something that was very important.

I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.

The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, 'You changed the way that I thought about Chris Darden.'

Kanye West does not represent all black people.

When people see me, I might come across as just eye candy.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

The images you see in media are vital to impacting not just what the world sees in terms of who can be a computer scientist, who can be techie, who can be a geek or who can be a creator; it also impacts the girls and what they internalize.

I just didn't see any toys that looked like me when I was a kid.

It's far too rare an experience for Asian American girls to see themselves in media.

I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.