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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.

Michelle Obama

When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Limitation Yourself
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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Human Myself Willing
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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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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Learning Myself Value Voice
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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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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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Control Focus Law Reading Yourself
I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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