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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tarana Burke

Connect

Black

" Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.' "

Tarana Burke

Social Media

People

" 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

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

Tarana Burke

Words

People

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

" I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves. "

" Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

Tarana Burke

Men

Patriarchy

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

" In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors. "

" 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. "

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Men

Women

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

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

" I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent. "

" 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. "

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

" Social media is not a safe space. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up, because they don't get lifted up that often. "

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