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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Michelle Obama

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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Challenge Comfortable Moments Myself Yourself
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Death Hurt Live Myself
My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Family Heart Mom Myself World
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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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Ambitious Force Intellectual Love Myself Possible
I 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.
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Education Failure Grow Up Love Money Music Myself Start
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
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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Hurt Myself Person Understand
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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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
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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Husband Myself Photograph Smile
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Children Deep Grow Up Myself Philosophy Thinking

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