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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.

Michelle Obama

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Art Design Fashion Freedom History Music Poetry Time
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
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
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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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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Angry Black Emotional Logic Woman
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
[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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Creation Live World Yourself
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
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
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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Carry Deserve Existence History Remember Tolerance
It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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Carry Exception Myself World
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Father Gift People Time

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