Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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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.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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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.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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