"We pretty much coach for old town gators, which is a youth football league established in 1978 in East Baltimore. We call this the swamp. Our season starts on August 1st but it's the spring season now."
"What!? Hi, wanna know about this neighborhood? We live here, this is Biddle and Harford Avenue, okay, my name is Carl and Dee and we been around here and we been here all our life. My fifty-eighth birthday is next month.
I like the feel of the neighborhood from what it was to what it is now. It's much better because the trouble that used to be around here is no longer here, it's a much relaxed neighborhood now. If you wanna know something say something."
"It's sunny outside, it's beautiful and we get to play.
Yes!"
"The more I find out about Baltimore, the more I feel at at home and the more I feel that there are many untold stories of our daily heros. My nook right now in Baltimore is with the Red Emma's collective at Red Emma's or Greenmount Coffee Lab. We aren't perfect but we work hard everyday, fueled by love, passion, and our in-house roasted coffee to maintain a platform for social movements to develop and self educate. The Baltimore Asian Resistance in Solidarity, Baltimore AAPI Creatives and 0Zone are all groups that inspire me to create and challenge myself to resist Anti-blackness in a society that pits POC together.
""The plants are in a different spot. They're out normally on the stoop but they've never been that far from the house since they've been been born; in plant years that's a long time. And we did some heavy lifting today, we carried a dresser to Remington Street with a free sign. And I got to see this lady huffing and puffing out in the rain.
This day feels very holy and unique. It just feels unique because it's today."
"I feel like in Baltimore I feel like we need more black holes and fluctuations in the space-time continuum. I grew up in Reno and we need more vortexes and fluctuations in the space-time continuum."
"I've been here twenty one years. I opened this cafe a year and a half ago and it's been an amazing journey. It's the hardest thing I have ever done and I wouldn't change it."
"We love the Ravens and Baltimore. Do you see my tattoo?! It's the Pagoda at Patterson Park."
"That's the best part of the day, leaving after you knock that twelve out. We make bread here, sell it, and send it off to various companies at H&S Bakery and I bet they make a ton of money selling that shit."
"This is community day, getting together and eat some food. A moon bounce for the kids, over two hundred backpacks given to the community, and a mobile van to give out one hundred lunches out to Baltimore. It's a church that is not in the community but out in the community. We're watching the hill, Fed Hill and Butchers Hill. We're giving giving back to the community."