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Tarana Burke Quotes

We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.

Tarana Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Empathy Healing Me Process Powerful

When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

John Barrowman

Family Moment Growing Up Night Early

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Andre Gide

Life Me Better Friends Person More

Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out loud.

Amy Tan

Poetry Out Like Read Loud Emily

When I compete, I tell myself to be calm. It's not something that's the rest of your life. You're in gymnastics for fun.

Amy Chow

Life Myself Fun Calm Rest You

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robin Morgan

Feel Political Class Right Act Them

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Mike Nichols

Me Energy Feel Get Ease I Feel

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

Marty Meehan

Practice Writing End Real Laws Must

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Liz Phair

Women Experience Barriers Need Break

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

Lisa Jewell

Looking Voice New Always Fresh Gone

Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.

Joseph Brodsky

Beginning Thought Better Know Way

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill

Better Wrong Responsible Right Than

I am very ambitious.

Shelly Burch

I Am Ambitious Very Am