You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMAEmpower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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