Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
MICHELLE OBAMAjust do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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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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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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When they go low, we go high.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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