The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
MICHELLE OBAMAI grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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