Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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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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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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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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