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.
MICHELLE OBAMAHe’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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