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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.

Michelle Obama

Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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Different History Myself Past
[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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Creation Live World Yourself
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
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.
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Alone Carry Challenge Change Deserve Existence History Remember See Tolerance
I 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 OBAMA

Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Understand
And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Human Myself Willing
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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Hurt Myself Person Understand
just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Different Thinking Yourself
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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Black Man Oppression Reality
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Power Story Voice Willing Yourself
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Character Goodness Success Yourself
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Achievement End Growth Journey Myself See
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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Collection Imperfection Memories Mindset

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