When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMAThey didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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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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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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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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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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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