The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
MICHELLE OBAMAThis 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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 burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Since 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 ?
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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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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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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