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?
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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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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 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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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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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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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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