Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe 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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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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You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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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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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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