Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe lesson being that in life you control what you can.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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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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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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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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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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