And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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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.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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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?
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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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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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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