Tarana Burke quotes

So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

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

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

If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work.

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

These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.

I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history, then I would be among amazing company.

Social media is not a safe space.