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" What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives. "

" People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that. "

" People are not as imaginative as they think they are. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it. "

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

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

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it. "

" There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "