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" 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

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Tarana Burke

Permission

Person

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

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

" 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 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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

Tarana Burke

Words

People

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

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

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

Tarana Burke

Looks

Children

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "