My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMAIn my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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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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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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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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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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