That's my family. I'm already a part of the Squad and we're going to fight this thing together.

I stood up for brown lives and for babies in cages. I stood up against all of the oppression and the systems that have been holding our community down for so long.

One person that I've talked to a lot, that's always checking up on me, is my sister Ayanna Pressley. She's always like, 'You good sis?' We talk and it's like, 'What's needed?' And I think that she also understands that there's also this other piece of being a Black woman and a particular hue of Black woman where we need to stand and build one another up. She's not looking at it like, 'Oh, she's coming to take some of my shine' or none of that. It's like 'Sis, let's do this together.

[on the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown]During Ferguson, I saw something. The powers-that-be messed up, letting us see change happen. Even though we didn't get the change that we wanted, we saw change happening in other places

[on becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress in Missouri]I just won this seat from a 52-year dynasty because I stood up for Black lives.