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

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" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

" If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong. "

" 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'm not ashamed to be gay. "

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

" Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others. "

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

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

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

" There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences? "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information. "

" I'm not desensitized to death. "