Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
MICHELLE OBAMAI’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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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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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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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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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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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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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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