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.
MICHELLE OBAMAI was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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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.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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