Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMALife was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMAI hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
MICHELLE OBAMANo one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAAm I good enough? Yes, I am.
MICHELLE OBAMAI look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
MICHELLE OBAMAHis money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhat I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
MICHELLE OBAMAI didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMAPeople who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
MICHELLE OBAMAMarriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
MICHELLE OBAMAYour story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
MICHELLE OBAMADo we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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