Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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.
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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 stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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When they go low, we go high.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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