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 OBAMAWhen you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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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?
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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