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Tarana Burke Quotes

Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1973

Topics

Child Think Violence Play Trauma

Standardized tests don't care if you're white or black, short or tall, or even the rate at which you learned the course material. At the end of the day, all it cares about is whether you know what you're supposed to know. It can't be cheated, bent, or bargained with.

Day Black Care End Of The Day End

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Great Justice Special Equal Favors

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

Mirror Blame Looking Think Someone

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Funny Nature People Writing World

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

Habit Enthusiasm Others Just After

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Education Focus Better Attention Pay

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Women Hate People Advice Flaws Why

I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.

Good Say Touch Talk Anything He

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

Life Myself People Start My Life

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Age Find Will Spirit Next Himself

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

Sebastian Thrun

College Percent Protesting Should

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.

Time Yourself Stupid Enjoy You Own

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