One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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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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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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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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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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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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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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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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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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