It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
MICHELLE OBAMAHearing 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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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
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You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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 arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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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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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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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