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About Tarana Burke
American activist from New York City
Tarana Burke is an American activist from New York City, known for starting the Me Too movement. She began the work in 2006 through a youth program for junior and high school students. Burke launched Me Too to confront the widespread sexual violence affecting her community. In 2017, #MeToo spread into a global movement after Alyssa Milano urged women to use the phrase online in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein abuse cases.
More from Tarana Burke (88 quotes) →Other sayings from 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 w…”Tarana Burke
- “I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words.”Tarana Burke
- “We all have the right to an opinion, sure, but can we say how someone else should feel?”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
Empathy: more sayings
- “I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think…”Spencer Matthews
- “The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.”Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscio…”Eric Kandel
Explore Healing
- “The only thing operating on me was my God-given renewing body and his miraculous healing foods.”Celso Cukierkorn
- “Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.”Lynn C. Tolson
- “Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning…”Laurie Matthew
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Books by Tarana Burke
Unbound
2021
You Are Your Best Thing
2021