I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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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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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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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.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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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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