They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
MICHELLE OBAMAHearing 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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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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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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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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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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