110 Quotes by DeRay Mckesson

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

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

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.

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.

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.

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

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.

I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism.