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" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Push

Free

Interesting

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Goal

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

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" 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

" 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. "

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

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

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Kids

School

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" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

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Gay

Ashamed