Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
MICHELLE OBAMAfailure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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When they go low, we go high.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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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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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.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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