We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if we hope to see art imitate real life.
Interpretation
Queer parents of color should share their experiences to reflect their realities in art.
In this quote, Karamo Brown emphasizes the importance of queer parents of color actively sharing their narratives and experiences. By doing so, they contribute to the broader artistic landscape, ensuring that art reflects and honors the diverse realities of their lives, ultimately fostering understanding and representation in society.
In practice
During a panel discussion on representation in media.
I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body
You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
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