No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
MICHELLE OBAMANo one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
MICHELLE OBAMAHe’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
MICHELLE OBAMAI hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
MICHELLE OBAMAChanging 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
MICHELLE OBAMAThe burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
MICHELLE OBAMAIt’s remarkable how a stereotype functions as an actual trap. How many angry black women have been caught in the circular logic of that phrase? When you aren’t being listened to, why wouldn’t you get louder? If you’re written off as angry or emotional, doesn’t that just cause more of the same?
MICHELLE OBAMAI’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
MICHELLE OBAMAAnd there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAKids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
MICHELLE OBAMAAt fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMA[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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