We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMAAt fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
MICHELLE OBAMADon’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
MICHELLE OBAMAHe’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.
MICHELLE OBAMAI 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?
MICHELLE OBAMAThe truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
MICHELLE OBAMAI 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.
MICHELLE OBAMASince stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
MICHELLE OBAMADominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
MICHELLE OBAMAHearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
MICHELLE OBAMAI’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMAInspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
MICHELLE OBAMALife was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMAAm I good enough? Yes, I am.
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