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.
MICHELLE OBAMAFor 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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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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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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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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