I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
MICHELLE OBAMAGood relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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 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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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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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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[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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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