Tarana Burke Quotes

'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.

Tarana Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

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JourneyPeopleMeStartWayConnect

I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl.

Joanna Garcia

GirlRealCurvy

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

Jeffrey Wright

ThinkSurvivalAnythingAgency

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

Stephen Ambrose

MedicalPossibleNursesWouldToo

I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

Spike Milligan

DepressionChallengePeopleThink

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

Milton Friedman

PeopleValuesWantRightSystem

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Julia Sawalha

LoveGlamourOffAblePullWho

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

Lisa Lutz

MedicineFurnitureSometimesStudy

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Davy Crockett

DogManPuppyLittleWouldRather

The oddest thing to me has been when people come up to me, and they don't say anything, and they just put their arms around me and hug and kiss me. They don't even say hello! They just freak out like they've seen a unicorn.

Chris March

KissPeopleMeHugSayHello

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

China Mieville

BookTryingWriteIdeaLikeGenre

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

Coretta Scott King

DeathPeopleAfricaHungerEthiopia

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

Clarence Thomas

OldSystemAwayGetWantedGroups

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