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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.

Michelle Obama

We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Afraid Focus Hope Inspirational Women Empowerment
I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Friendship Idea Myself
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
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
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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Moments Myself See
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
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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Alone Happiness Marriage Private Quiet
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
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Country Hate Language Myself Reflection Spirit True Understand Word
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Friendship Journey Live
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result

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