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.
MICHELLE OBAMAI 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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