Tarana Burke Quotes
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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.
Tarana Burke
We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.
Tarana Burke
What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.
Tarana Burke
For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there's, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don't pay attention until it's a big name. And we don't pay attention 'til it's a big celebrity.
Tarana Burke