No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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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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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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