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
People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.
Interpretation
People seek ways to express their genuine feelings and experiences.
This quote by Tarana Burke highlights the human need for authentic expression. In today's world, individuals are increasingly looking for safe spaces to share their truths, stories, and identities, signaling a deep desire for connection and understanding in relationships and communities.
In practice
In a motivational speech about vulnerability, one might say, 'People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth, as it brings us closer together.'
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.
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.
That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.
I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.
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