I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
MICHELLE OBAMAFor me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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 stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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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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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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