The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. 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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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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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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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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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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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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