Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
MICHELLE OBAMAThey didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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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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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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