The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
MICHELLE OBAMANow 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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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 wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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