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" 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. "

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" '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

" Social media is not a safe space. "

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

" We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that. "

Tarana Burke

Healing

Process

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

" The personal is political for so many. "

" There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up, because they don't get lifted up that often. "

" I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history, then I would be among amazing company. "

Tarana Burke

Work

Place

" I don't work for Hollywood. "

Tarana Burke

Work

Hollywood

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Tarana Burke

Black

Famous

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Tarana Burke

Something

Always

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

" 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 think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support. "

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

" 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