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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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