If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
MICHELLE OBAMAI began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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.
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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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.
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