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 OBAMAThe more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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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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Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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[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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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