I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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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 wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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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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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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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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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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.
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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’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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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