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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.

Michelle Obama

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Friendship Journey Live
When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Inspirational One Liner Success
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
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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Care Education Health Pieces Truth
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Human Myself Willing
I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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Learning Myself Value Voice
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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Black Man Oppression Reality
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.
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Act Explanation Inspirational
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
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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Hurt Myself Person Understand
Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Children Deep Grow Up Myself Philosophy Thinking
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Choice Forever Yourself
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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Care Establishment Fundamental Path People Problem Thinking
Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Believe Direction Ideal Lost Myself Need Ourselves Reality True

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