The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
MICHELLE OBAMAOne 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 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.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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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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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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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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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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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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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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