And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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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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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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