Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAI began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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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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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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