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Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke

American Activist

Born: Sep 12, 1973

About Healing Me People Work You

Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony

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. Tarana Burke

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. Tarana Burke

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

Leadership Trust Community Our Voices Know Communities Need

Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that. Tarana Burke

Enemy Men About Clear

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. Tarana Burke

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

Me Too Something Could Masses Known Always

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. Tarana Burke

People Splitting Hairs Qualify Quantify Get Want Trauma Position

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.' Tarana Burke

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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

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When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on. Tarana Burke

Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing. Tarana Burke

Work Me Unless Advances Doing Celebrity Serve

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

Time Me People Sympathy Survivors Pity Place Interesting Engage

I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now. Tarana Burke

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Social media is not a safe space. Tarana Burke

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