Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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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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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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[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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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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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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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