If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhat 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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