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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.

Michelle Obama

It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Angry Black Emotional Logic Woman
Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
MICHELLE OBAMA

Change Focus Live Photograph Reality
The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Fame Hate Success
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Achievement End Growth Journey Myself See
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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Character Life People Relationship Respect Value Word
I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Feeling Goodness Hurt Relationship Right
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Education Goodness Promise Woman Empowerment Worth Yourself
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Husband Myself Photograph Smile
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
When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Inspirational One Liner Success
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Family Heart Mom Myself World
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Act Explanation Inspirational
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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Friendship Journey Live
I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Ambitious Force Intellectual Love Myself Possible
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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Friendship Goodness Hurt Life Marriage People Relationship Right Trust
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Business Himself Mindset Problem See World
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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Control Lesson Life Yourself
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Heart Important Mom World
America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Moment Ourselves Present
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Friendship Kindness Woman
I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Hard Learning Myself

I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.

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