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.
MICHELLE OBAMAfailure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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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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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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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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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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