Even white people were recognizing him now.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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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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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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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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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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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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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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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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