The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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It 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.
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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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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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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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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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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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