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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm not desensitized to death. "

" 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 was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis. "

" I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am. "

" 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. "

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

" A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen. "

" 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. "

" We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space. "

" The history of blackness is also a history of erasure. "

" I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that. "

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

" The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve. "