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" 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. "

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" So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice. "

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Deal

Advice

People

" People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work. "

" 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. "

" The world doesn't realise I have a regular job! "

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

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

" 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. "

" If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance. "

" The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, 'I see you. I support you. I get it.' "

" The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space. "

" We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers. "

" 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. "

" An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. "

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Healing

Empathy

" 'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors. "

Tarana Burke

Way

Empathy

" 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. "

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Wave

Know

" If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work. "

" 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. "

" Social media is not a safe space. "

" Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job. "

" I want survivors to know that healing is possible. "

" I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words. "

Tarana Burke

Words

People

" I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls. "

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

" Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too. "

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Men

Patriarchy

" We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do. "

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Something

Always

" What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. "

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People

Sympathy

" 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. "

" I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions. "

" When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are. "

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