Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt’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?
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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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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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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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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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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