There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
MICHELLE OBAMAjust do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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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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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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