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" 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.' "

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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

Work

Try

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities. "

Tarana Burke

Survivor

Justice

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

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

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

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

Tarana Burke

Permission

Person

" We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like. "

Tarana Burke

Looks

Children

" There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue. "

" We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tarana Burke

Work

Start

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Tarana Burke

Wave

Know

" 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. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

Tarana Burke

Power

Empathy

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Tarana Burke

Think

Too

" 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. "

" You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane. "

" 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.' "

" 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

" 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