When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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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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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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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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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