I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMAI’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhen they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
MICHELLE OBAMAYou find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMABullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe live by the paradigms we know.
MICHELLE OBAMAIf you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
MICHELLE OBAMAMy daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
MICHELLE OBAMAHe’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.
MICHELLE OBAMAGood relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
MICHELLE OBAMANow 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAI have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
MICHELLE OBAMAKids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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