Tarana Burke Quotes

I would just like to say something to all the women out there. You're not the only one that's probably going through something, so I feel as though if one person speaks up, maybe it - hopefully - will be a domino effect.

I make my fans feel like they are part of the movement, and if you a fan of the movement, you're going to feel like you ride with me.

In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.

In a place of pain, there is space for everyone.

I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.

Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

To know that so many people have our backs and support us is an awesome thing. You need people saying, 'Hey man, I'm with you all the way.'

When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.

'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.

If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.

Everyone who has felt alienated by the games industry, both would-be players and creators, needs to rally together and support one another as we create a space for those of us who don't fit in traditional spaces.

I moved in with a roommate who told me, 'Stay with me until you can afford rent. Don't give up.' People who supported me were like, 'If you don't have money for food, I'll cook you dinner. You don't have money for acting class? Let's get together and read lines.'