It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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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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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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When they go low, we go high.
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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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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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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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