48 Quotes by Kerby Jean-Raymond

I think that when you rally powerful voices around powerful issues, what you get are positive results.

I want to be fashion's Erykah Badu. What I admire about her is her timelessness and her fearless approach.

I've never seen Ralph Lauren, Rick Owens, or Raf Simons described as white designers. They are just designers.

The work of black creatives seems to always get undermined in one way or another, and that's what this new generation is actively changing by speaking up. We aren't accepting group categorization and group classifications to describe our work anymore - it just leads to group dismissal.

Think about how much fashion profits from black culture and how underrepresented we are in the industry. If you insist on using black celebrities to peddle your merchandise and add a cool factor to your front row, it is indecent to not care about the plights of that person's community.

We're always ready for a pick-up game. I walk through the park on the way home every day and just think to myself, 'I'll take on any of these kids.'

We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

Financing is always the hard part, especially if you don't have friends or family to back you, which was my case and the case for most designers.