Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAI 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?
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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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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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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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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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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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