You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMAEveryone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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