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?
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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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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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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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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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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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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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Now 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.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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