The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
MICHELLE OBAMAa happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you 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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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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