Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
MICHELLE OBAMANow 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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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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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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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 stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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