I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I'm not desensitized to death.