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.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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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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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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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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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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?
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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When they go low, we go high.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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