Athlete

Changing communities and changing our country is going to last a lot longer than how many footballs you catch or how many touchdowns you make.

I get hate mail. I get bad mail. People say they will boycott you or the team.

Fashion, to me, is trends - it's what other people are wearing; it's what's hot this season. I'm not as interested in that. Style, to me, is personal. Style is what each individual has.

I want to be remembered as someone that used football to raise awareness.

I don't want to do things to do things. I want them all to make sense to me.

My wife has an all-natural skin and hair product company. I use all of her products for my beard. She has a beard oil and a beard wash. So that is what I use.

My goal is to use football as a platform to speak out on things that need addressing.

I have a huge passion for giving back.

I didn't realize that the platform could be this big until Colin Kaepernick first took a knee. When he did that, that was kind of an 'aha' moment for me.

We're kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we're in.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

If you want change, and you want things to get better across the country, there's different ways to go about it.

We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.

I actually enjoy talking about some things other than football.

The biggest things I have are the platform that I have and influence.

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

Communities of color have also had to watch video after video of unarmed black men and women being handled without regard for their lives or well-being. As a black man, I see these images, and I see myself; I wonder whether this will happen to me or one of my loved ones.

Everyone loses when voices get stifled.

To be in a situation where you have another year on your deal and the team still wants to extend that - they see your value, they want you in the building, and they want to build around you - that speaks volumes. That's very, very important to a player like me.

It's actually been pretty liberating for me to fully get behind a cause that I feel is worthy and to stand on it and to follow where my heart takes me.