DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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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.
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Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information.
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If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.
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There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.
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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.
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Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.
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There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.
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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.
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When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
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A lot of organizers are trying to figure out how do we create entrances for people so they can be involved in the work in a way that makes them feel is aligned to the things they're interested in and not the things the organizer is interested in?
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Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.
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The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.
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You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.
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I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.
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As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.
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I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.
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Some people are more interested in fighting than winning.
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I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
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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.
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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
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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.
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Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.