Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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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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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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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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