The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
MICHELLE OBAMATrump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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When they go low, we go high.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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