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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.

Michelle Obama

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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Collection Imperfection Memories Mindset
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
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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Change Focus Live Photograph Reality
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Challenge Change Deserve Existence History Remember See Tolerance
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Human Myself Willing
The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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Hurt Myself Person Understand
there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Effort Limitation Reward
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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Family God Man Myself
Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Age Children Enough Investment Myself Survive Young
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth
Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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Black Life Oppression Power Woman
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
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

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