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I love mayors.
We must be agents of love.
Newark faces real challenges.
I am a Yale Law School graduate.
It takes too much energy to hate.
I still have that new senator smell.
Do not forget from whence you've come.
We're a nation of hope, of high ideals.
I debated between law school and divinity.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.
I have not settled down with a life partner.
I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.
My whole life has been about confronting cynicism.
Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.
I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.
I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.
If we want a great nation, we have to change it ourselves.
I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible.
Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.
I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.
If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.
Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners.
My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.
If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.
Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.
Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.
Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.
More than anything, we must do better for our children's education.
I live in Newark. My family lives in Newark. I own a house in Newark.
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders.
The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.
When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.
You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.
Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.
What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?
Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.
We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield
You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.
You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.