What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
MICHELLE OBAMAAm I good enough? Yes, I am.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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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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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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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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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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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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It’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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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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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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