Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
MICHELLE OBAMABullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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