Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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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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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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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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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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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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