My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMAI just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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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 was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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