there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
MICHELLE OBAMABullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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
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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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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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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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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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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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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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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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