The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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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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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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