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.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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