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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.

Michelle Obama

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
I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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Energy Goal Grow Up Investment Lesson Negative Oneself True
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
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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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Decision Fear Possible Yourself
Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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Afraid Focus Hope Inspirational Women Empowerment
We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Patience Plant See
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Feeling Goodness Hurt Relationship Right
What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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End Grow Up Yourself
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
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
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Fame Hate Success

Am I good enough? Yes, I am.

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