90 Quotes by Tarana Burke

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.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

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.'

When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up.

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

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

If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.

Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.