Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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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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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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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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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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