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" 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. "

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People

" I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility. "

" 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. "

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

" You're not born woke. Something wakes you up. "

" I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education. "

" It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree. "

" People are more afraid of black unity than black rage. "

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People

Black

" Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support. "

" I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it. "

" I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems. "

" When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people. "

" I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had. "

" I'm not desensitized to death. "

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Death

" Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is. "

" I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it. "

" The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.' "

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Student

New

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

" Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs. "

" I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me. "

" Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world. "

" It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside. "

" It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money. "

" If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo. "

" There are people who have demonstrated their willingness to challenge systems and structures, and then when it comes to elections, some of those same people - I don't know where their fight went. What's interesting to me is to see people lose the revolution when it comes to elections. "

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" I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining. "

" Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest. "

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Honest

World

" I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still. "

" I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence. "

" I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources. "