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 OBAMAI began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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