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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" The first thing I organized around was the Central Park Five case for the young men who were accused. We talked about the unfair misrepresentation of these young teenagers in the media. I've been fighting back against Donald Trump for a long time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "