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Top 10 Tarana Burke Quotes (2025 Update)

Tarana Burke Quote: “Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already claimed for sovereignty.”

1. “Dangerous is the woman who can give herself what she used to seek from others. Limitless is the woman who dares to name herself. The way I see it, shame cannot oppress what acceptance has already claimed for sovereignty.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “After all, I didn’t see my story as my gift, only as my shame.”

2. “After all, I didn’t see my story as my gift, only as my shame.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of healing empathy and courage?”

3. “Maybe community creates courage. What if courage creates community? Maybe empathy creates courage. How can you express empathy towards others if you can’t empathize with your own self? Is the core of healing empathy and courage?”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “Unkindness is a serial killer.”

4. “Unkindness is a serial killer.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “We tell the world they don’t have to be anything but themselves to be worthy, and then we work until the stress is about to kill us to prove our worth.”

5. “We tell the world they don’t have to be anything but themselves to be worthy, and then we work until the stress is about to kill us to prove our worth.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “As long as we are not living in our full humanity, we cannot create a world for humanity.”

6. “As long as we are not living in our full humanity, we cannot create a world for humanity.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experience, I didn’t hold my abusers accountable – I held myself to blame. In my mind, they didn’t abuse me. I broke the rules. I was the one who did something wrong.”

7. “Never let anyone touch your private parts, they’d say. But I wasn’t told why I had to protect my private parts, just that it was imperative that I did. Because of this, when I thought of my experience, I didn’t hold my abusers accountable – I held myself to blame. In my mind, they didn’t abuse me. I broke the rules. I was the one who did something wrong.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit.”

8. “The truth always needs a resting place or it will lie down wherever it sees fit.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “TARANA: That’s so interesting, right? That’s another reason why antiracist work is important. You have to engage with Black humanity, because the expansiveness of our humanity is so great that it reaches to other people. I don’t want to sound all kumbaya and “we’re all just human beings,” but we’re all just human beings whose experiences and environments and these systems have affected in different ways. But we must tear away the layers to reveal the core, then work our way back from that.”

9. “TARANA: That’s so interesting, right? That’s another reason why antiracist work is important. You have to engage with Black humanity, because the expansiveness of our humanity is so great that it reaches to other people. I don’t want to sound all kumbaya and “we’re all just human beings,” but we’re all just human beings whose experiences and environments and these systems have affected in different ways. But we must tear away the layers to reveal the core, then work our way back from that.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “But we miss all that and, in turn, miss the opportunity to be agents of the Spirit’s healing – because we are too deeply invested in certainty as a marker of our faith. Ironic since, by definition, faith requires a relinquishing of certainty.”

10. “But we miss all that and, in turn, miss the opportunity to be agents of the Spirit’s healing – because we are too deeply invested in certainty as a marker of our faith. Ironic since, by definition, faith requires a relinquishing of certainty.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “If unkindness is indeed a serial killer, then my revelation is that I was my own murderer. I had taught myself to bend to my own unkindness first, so that I would be able to withstand the unkindness of others. I will not bend anymore.”

11. “If unkindness is indeed a serial killer, then my revelation is that I was my own murderer. I had taught myself to bend to my own unkindness first, so that I would be able to withstand the unkindness of others. I will not bend anymore.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “There are few things more painful than watching the folks you love actively not love you back. Especially when they aren’t outwardly unkind or distant or they’ve spoken words that sounded like love and have provided support that could be construed as love without an understanding of the kind of love you need and deserve.”

12. “There are few things more painful than watching the folks you love actively not love you back. Especially when they aren’t outwardly unkind or distant or they’ve spoken words that sounded like love and have provided support that could be construed as love without an understanding of the kind of love you need and deserve.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “There is no question that self-hate severely limits one’s capacity to love fully and wholeheartedly. Capacity and desire are not the same thing, especially in discussions of love.”

13. “There is no question that self-hate severely limits one’s capacity to love fully and wholeheartedly. Capacity and desire are not the same thing, especially in discussions of love.”

— Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke Quote: “I’m writing to you right now because if you haven’t changed by now, I’m afraid of what else might have been added to this list.”

14. “I’m writing to you right now because if you haven’t changed by now, I’m afraid of what else might have been added to this list.”

— Tarana Burke

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