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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

Michelle Obama

Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Moment Ourselves Present
Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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Moments Myself See
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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Black Man Oppression Reality
[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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Creation Live World Yourself
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.
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Control Focus Law Reading Yourself
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Father Gift People Time
I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Hard Learning Myself
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Feeling Goodness Hurt Relationship Right
You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself
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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Myself Need Perfection Road Wrong
I 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.
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Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Understand

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