Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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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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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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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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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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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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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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