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" I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors. "

Tarana Burke

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

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People

" 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. "

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

" Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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Social Media

People

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Tarana Burke

Something

Always

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

" 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. "

" There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you're alone with your thoughts, like, 'Why did I do that?' And then, what about the person who gets backlash? "