America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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It’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?
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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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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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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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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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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We 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.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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