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" Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths. "

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" If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time. "

" I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers. "

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

" I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. "

" I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else. "

" I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden. "

" I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. "

" There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons. "

" Some people are more interested in fighting than winning. "

" Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information. "

" Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in. "

" People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke. "

" I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope. "

" It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. "

" The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not. "

" Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us. "

" The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city. "

" Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all. "

" For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. "

" Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn. "

" I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter. "

" I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester. "

" What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two. "

" Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience. "

" I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism. "

" Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life. "

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

" People are not as imaginative as they think they are. "

" So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it. "

" Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional. "