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" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Learning

Information

Deep

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DeRay Mckesson

Bad

Want

" 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. "

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

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

Always

Black

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

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

Kids

School

" It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. "

" 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. "

" My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister. "

DeRay Mckesson

Father

Loved

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" Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. "

DeRay Mckesson

Change

Goal

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

Seriously

Portray

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" I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC. "