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.
MICHELLE OBAMAAt fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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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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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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