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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.

Michelle Obama

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Art Design Fashion Freedom History Music Poetry Time
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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Alone Carry Challenge Change Deserve Existence History Remember See Tolerance
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Person Rich Satisfaction
The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Control Lesson Life Yourself
[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Creation Live World Yourself
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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End Grow Up Yourself
It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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Carry Exception Myself World
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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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Heart Important Mom World
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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Carry Deserve Existence History Remember Tolerance
I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Comfortable Hate Honesty Myself
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Father Gift People Time
America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Moment Ourselves Present
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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Black Life Oppression Power Woman
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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Myself Need Perfection Road Wrong
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See

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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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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