We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMAOne of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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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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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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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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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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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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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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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 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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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