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Tarana Burke Quotes

The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space.

Tarana Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Community Space Me Color Church Own

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

Joan Didion

Change Me Eye Feel You Go

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Jennifer Damiano

Life People Gossip Personal Never

My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'

Robert Rinder

Passion Dance Born Genuine Watching

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

John Irving

Alone Imagination Being Alone Me Kid

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

Mat Kearney

Life Music Late Play Started Writer

Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.

Martine McCutcheon

People Busy Think Doing You Will

Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.

Michelle Dockery

Time Me Limits End Loved Measure

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

Liz Goldwyn

Woman Hair Night Fashion Airplane

I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?'

Dolores O'Riordan

Home Service Mom Door Thinking You

I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.

Chauncey Billups

Think Important Now Point Position

I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

Brett Dalton

Kitchen Know Why Nightmares Obsessed

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Bob Menendez

Short Long Growing First Economy