You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
MICHELLE OBAMAI 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
MICHELLE OBAMALife 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 OBAMAHis money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhat I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
MICHELLE OBAMAEven white people were recognizing him now.
MICHELLE OBAMAjust do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
MICHELLE OBAMAPeople who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
MICHELLE OBAMAHe’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
MICHELLE OBAMAMy most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMAI 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.
MICHELLE OBAMA[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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