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" Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me. "

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" I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face. "

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

" 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. "

" We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly. "

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

" When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir. "

" What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality. "

" I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much. "

" 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. "

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

" Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived. "

" 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. "

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

" 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've worked in two public school districts, Minneapolis and Baltimore, one as a senior leader. And while we might not always have agreed with the union, and we might have had deep differences, they came to the table. "

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

" When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public. "

" I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed. "

" As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am. "

" 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 actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings. "

" Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously. "

" There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences? "

" 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. "

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

" As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again. "