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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.

Michelle Obama

It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Direction Live Plant Possible Success
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

Power Story Voice Willing Yourself
My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Family Heart Mom Myself World
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Limitation Yourself
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Friendship Idea Myself
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Human Myself Willing
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Character Goodness Success Yourself
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Education Student
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
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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Carry Deserve Existence History Remember Tolerance
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Fame Hate Success
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Person Rich Satisfaction
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World

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