Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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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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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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