[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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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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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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