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" 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. "

Tarana Burke

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" Social media is not a safe space. "

" The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities. "

" Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute. "

" 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. "

" Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it. "

" I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated. "

Tarana Burke

Think

Too

" Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing. "

" 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. "

" I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support. "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

" We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like. "

Tarana Burke

Looks

Children

" Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something. "

" We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

Tarana Burke

Power

Empathy

" Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources. "

" If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble. "

" I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore. "

" Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent. "

" We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So there's a larger conversation to be had. And I think it will be a disservice to people if we couch this conversation in about what happens in Hollywood or what happens in even political offices. "

" These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does. "

" People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated. "

Tarana Burke

Men

Women

" Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that. "

" I'm all about cultivating joy in your life. "

" We all have the right to an opinion, sure, but can we say how someone else should feel? "

" I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is. "

" What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities. "

Tarana Burke

Survivor

Justice

" People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth. "

" 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. "

Tarana Burke

Community

Black

" The personal is political for so many. "

" When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up. "

Tarana Burke

Permission

Person