I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
People need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history,… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up,… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only… — Tarana Burke Copy Share
When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are. — Tarana Burke Copy Share
I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated. — Tarana Burke Copy Share
When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be… — Tarana Burke Copy Share
The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each… — Tarana Burke Copy Share
'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 Copy Share
'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world. — Tarana Burke Copy Share
Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence… — Tarana Burke Copy Share
Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start thinking about… — Tarana Burke Copy Share
We all have the right to an opinion, sure, but can we say how someone else should feel? — Tarana Burke Copy Share
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. — Tarana Burke Copy Share
