If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by 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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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