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Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute.

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If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it.

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These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does.

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I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma.

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

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There is always a way to get what you need, and I really believe in taking what you have to make what you need.

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Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love.

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People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth.

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The first thing I organized around was the Central Park Five case for the young men who were accused. We talked about the unfair misrepresentation of these young teenagers in the media. I've been fighting back against Donald Trump for a long time.

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I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: September 12th, 1973

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