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

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" You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change. "

" 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. "

" 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 think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. "

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

" Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths. "

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

" It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. "

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. "

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

" I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. "

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

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

" Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn. "

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