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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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