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

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" When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal. "

" 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'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony. "

" 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'm not desensitized to death. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. "

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

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "