Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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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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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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 just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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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.
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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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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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