Hearing 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 OBAMATime, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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