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.
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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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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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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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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We live by the paradigms we 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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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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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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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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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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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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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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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