Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhen they go low, we go high.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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When they go low, we go high.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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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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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
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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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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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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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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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