there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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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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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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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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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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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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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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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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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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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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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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