The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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