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.
MICHELLE OBAMAFulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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I 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.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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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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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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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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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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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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