And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAMy most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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