The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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 we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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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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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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,
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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