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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.

Michelle Obama

Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Deep Philosophy World
We live by the paradigms we know.
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Live One Liner
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Friendship Kindness Woman
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Creation Live World Yourself
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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Character Life People Relationship Respect Value Word
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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Education Goodness Promise Woman Empowerment Worth Yourself
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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Art Design Fashion Freedom History Music Poetry Time
I 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?
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Learning Myself Value Voice
There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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Power Story Voice Willing Yourself
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Enough Goodness Myself Self Love Worth

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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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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