Mayor Andre Dickens
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Once I knew who I wanted to be, I said then at 16, I want to be the mayor of my home city, the city of Atlanta.
I didn't hide it under a rock.
I didn't hide it under a rock.
I didn't conceal it because it's too big of a dream that maybe somebody will will say, hey, you know, you can't be mayor.
I didn't conceal it because it's too big of a dream that maybe somebody will say, hey, you know, you can't be mayor.
There's only one of them at a time and they only get that job every four years.
There's only one of them at a time.
And they only get that job every four years.
So how dare you have the audacity to want to be the mayor and to be serious about it?
So how dare you have the audacity to want to be the mayor and to be serious about it?
No, I told everybody.
No, I told everybody.
So when I came around and said, I'm running for city council, there was not a doubt in any of my friends and in my family and in my teachers and in my churchgoers.
So when I came around and said, I'm running for city council, there was not a doubt in any of my friends and in my family and in my teachers and in my churchgoers.
They were all like, finally, let's go.
They were all like, finally, let's go.
Let's run.
Let's run.
Where's my T-shirt?
Where's my T-shirt?