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.
MICHELLE OBAMAAnd there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
-
-
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMA -
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMA -
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 OBAMA -
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?
MICHELLE OBAMA -
Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
MICHELLE OBAMA