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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?

Michelle Obama

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?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Moments Myself See
They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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Home Investment
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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Different History Myself Past
I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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Achievement Myself Success Worth
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Friendship Idea Myself
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Moment Ourselves Present
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
I 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.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Challenge Comfortable Moments Myself Yourself
Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Energy Goal Grow Up Investment Lesson Negative Oneself True
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
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth

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