For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
MICHELLE OBAMAGood relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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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