You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMAI’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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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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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.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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