Tarana Burke on the Birth of #MeToo, Letting Black Girls ‘Just Be,’ and Leaning on Her Faith
Maybe then, Milano reasoned, the world would understand the magnitude of the issue. She urged would-be tweeters to include the words me too in their posts. SELF: Why this book now? Burke:I look at it as overdue. This was 2017, and they sought a celebrity memoir kind of thing. And I was not interested in that. It was important to get it right. I wanted my first book to be about survival....