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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.

Michelle Obama

As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Limitation Yourself
I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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Friendship Journey Live
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’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Hard Learning Myself
My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Family Heart Mom Myself World
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Business Himself Mindset Problem See World
I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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Comfortable Hate Honesty Myself
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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Country Hate Language Myself Reflection Spirit True Understand Word
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?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Angry Black Emotional Logic Woman

As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.

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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.

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