Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
MICHELLE OBAMAI grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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My 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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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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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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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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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