90 Quotes by Tarana Burke

Systems of white supremacy teach us shame because they have no guilt.Rejecting shame for Black lives means rejecting individual responsibility for structural failures.(Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love by Yolo Akili Robinson)

At the time, the whispers to keep silent and appear normal were deafening. And so we did.There is no blame here. We were just trying to survive.(Where the Truth Rests)

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

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

The personal is political for so many.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

Social media is not a safe space.

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

I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There was dearth in resources, and I saw young people - I saw black and brown girls - who are hurting and who needed something that just wasn't there.