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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.

Michelle Obama

It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Death Hurt Live Myself
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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Alone Carry Challenge Change Deserve Existence History Remember See Tolerance
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Human Myself Willing
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Father Gift People Time
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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End Grow Up Yourself
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
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 ?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Black Life Oppression Power Woman
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
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
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.
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Failure Feeling Myself Plant Result Success
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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Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Thinking Understand Yourself
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student

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