Feminism Quotes by Tarana Burke

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

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

— Tarana Burke

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

— Tarana Burke

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

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

Social media is not a safe space.

— Tarana Burke

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

— Tarana Burke

'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

'Me too' was just two words; it's two magic words that galvanised the world.

— Tarana Burke

Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.

— Tarana Burke

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

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

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

— Tarana Burke

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

— Tarana Burke

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

— Tarana Burke