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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

Michelle Obama

People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Moment Ourselves Present
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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Care Establishment Fundamental Path People Problem Thinking
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
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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Angry Black Emotional Logic Woman
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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Family Goal Live Marriage Myself
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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Heart Important Mom World
They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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Home Investment
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Human Myself Willing
There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Power Story Voice Willing Yourself
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Husband Myself Photograph Smile
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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Believe Home Job Life Man Myself
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success

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