Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
MICHELLE OBAMAI look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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 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.
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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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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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It’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?
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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