I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
MICHELLE OBAMALook 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?
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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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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What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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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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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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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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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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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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