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
MICHELLE OBAMAKids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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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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