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

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.

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

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

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

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

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 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.

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