Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAThe realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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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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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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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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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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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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