The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
MICHELLE OBAMALife 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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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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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 have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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