People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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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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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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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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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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