We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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[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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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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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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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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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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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