America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
MICHELLE OBAMASince 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 ?
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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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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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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When they go low, we go high.
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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