I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMA
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
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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 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.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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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.
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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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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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