110 Quotes by DeRay Mckesson

I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.

I'm not desensitized to death.

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

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

Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

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

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