What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
MICHELLE OBAMAGood relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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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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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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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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