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" An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. "
Healing
Empathy
Like
" Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her at work. "
Work
Line
Law
" As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing. "
Lot
Space
Healing
" At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work. "
Work
Me
Start
" Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over a decade to no avail. "
Black
Like
Famous
" Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing. "
Work
Doing
Celebrity
" Donald Trump has proven to be the kind of person who you can't reason with and who you can't have a logical conversation with - and who I can't imagine having a heart-to-heart conversation thinking that I would change something specifically about this person. "
Thinking
Conversation
Change
" Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love. "
Angry
Foundation
Love
" Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute. "
Everybody
Contribute
Lane
" For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it. "
Teachers
Cousins
Focus
" For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity. "
Coach
You
Teacher
" Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start thinking about how to reach into communities and support community healing on a more local level. "
Think
Support
Past
" Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something. "
Stand Up
Speak
Stand
" I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now. "
Start
Opportunity
Think
" I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense. "
Think
Culture
Common Sense
" I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma. "
People
Position
Trauma
" I don't work for Hollywood. "
Work
Hollywood
" I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words. "
Me
Words
People
" If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it. "
Tree
Harvest
Healing
" I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There was dearth in resources, and I saw young people - I saw black and brown girls - who are hurting and who needed something that just wasn't there. "
Me
Community
Black
" I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran. "
Me
Connect
Black
" If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work. "
People
Wrong
Center
" If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble. "
Doing
Going
Keep
" If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance. "
People
You
Need
" I have a lot of experience - not just with my 'Me Too' campaign but with survivors disclosing. I know that there is a wave of emotions that happens after that. "
Wave
Me
Know
" I have been working with young people for more than 25 years. "
Young
People
More
" I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent. "
Just
Believe
Always
" I'm all about cultivating joy in your life. "
Cultivating
Your
Life
" I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them. "
People
Them
Driven
" I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore. "
Anymore
Grounded
Joy
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