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" If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn. "

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

DeRay Mckesson

Government

Think

Creative

" 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 will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still. "

" Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Teacher

Two

" Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional. "

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

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

DeRay Mckesson

Gay

Ashamed

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

Student

New

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Honest

World

" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Time

People

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

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

" 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. "

" I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education. "

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

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

People

Black

" I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester. "

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

" 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 my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope. "