You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
MICHELLE OBAMANow that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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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.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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