Tarana Burke

The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there…

— 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…

— Tarana Burke

The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking…

— 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…

— 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…

— Tarana Burke

Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start…

— 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

There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on…

— Tarana Burke

There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize…

— Tarana Burke

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

People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

— Tarana Burke

I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that…

— Tarana Burke

We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me -…

— Tarana Burke

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

— Tarana Burke

Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources.

— Tarana Burke

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

— Tarana Burke

If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for…

— Tarana Burke