The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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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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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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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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