It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
MICHELLE OBAMAAnd Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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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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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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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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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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