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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result

Michelle Obama

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
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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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
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
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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End Grow Up Yourself
It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Death Hurt Live Myself
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Human Myself Willing
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Character Goodness Success Yourself
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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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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Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
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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Education Goodness Promise Woman Empowerment Worth Yourself
It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Direction Live Plant Possible Success
Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Decision Fear Possible Yourself

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result

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