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.
MICHELLE OBAMAEven 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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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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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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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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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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