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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.

Michelle Obama

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 OBAMA

Collection Imperfection Memories Mindset
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Person Rich Satisfaction
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Character Life People Relationship Respect Value Word
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Character Quick Yourself
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth
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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Family God Man Myself
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
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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Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
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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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
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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Achievement End Growth Journey Myself See
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Failure Feeling Myself Plant Result Success
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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Myself Need Perfection Road Wrong

They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.

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