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.
MICHELLE OBAMATrump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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When they go low, we go high.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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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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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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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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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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