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.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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