Tarana Burke Quotes

The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities.

Tarana Burke

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WorkHealingAboutIndividuals

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

Jidenna

MotherColorAmericaWhiteNever

Better to be wrong than be boring.

Andre Geim

BetterWrongBoringThan

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

Alyson Stoner

ChallengeVoiceFaceConfusedActing

I've sown all the oats I want to sow.

Stephanie Zimbalist

WantOatsSowSown

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

Trevor Nunn

TimeDecisionBackGoNowGoing

I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

Mary Berry

WarRememberSeeingHouseDownBath

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

Mary Oliver

PeopleLearnWayRespondReadPoems

After snowboarding a fair bit in 2011 and 2012 to test equipment, I got pretty good at it, and some friends at Adaptive Action Sports talked me into competing at the exhibition event at the Winter X Games in the adaptive boardercross. I was able to step up my game pretty quick and compete. I took last place, but knew I could improve.

Mike Schultz

WinterGoodSportsStepMeGame

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

Jason Isbell

CarTimeFightEnoughTryingRock

It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.

Delilah

BusinessMyselfBestPeopleMindGo

I set goals, and I like to reach them and accomplish new things.

CM Punk

GoalsNew ThingsReachAccomplish

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.

William Godwin

RepetitionCultivateDisplayZeal

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