I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.
Tarana BurkeRead
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.
Interpretation
Sharing knowledge and resources can help heal others and is a moral duty.
This quote emphasizes the importance of sharing one's gifts, knowledge, or resources with others, especially when they possess the ability to help or heal. Tarana Burke highlights a moral obligation to share cures or solutions rather than hoarding them for oneself, promoting compassion and community support.
In practice
In a speech about community service, I might say, 'As Tarana Burke stated, if I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.'
I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.
We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.
I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support.
Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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