Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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The 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.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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I 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.
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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