And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAI was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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?
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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