The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

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.

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.

I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.

I'm not desensitized to death.

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

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

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.