It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Even 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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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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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When they go low, we go high.
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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.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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