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?
MICHELLE OBAMAWe were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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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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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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