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

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" I've worked in two public school districts, Minneapolis and Baltimore, one as a senior leader. And while we might not always have agreed with the union, and we might have had deep differences, they came to the table. "

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

" The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer. "

" The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me. "

" 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'm not ashamed to be gay. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice. "

" We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time. "

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

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

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