903 Quotes by Michelle Obama


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    I was astonished to see how our leaders treated him only as a threat to their power, inciting mistrust by playing on backward, anti-intellectual ideas about race and class.

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    This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path--the my-isn't-that-impressive- path-- and keep you there for a long time.

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    It went back to my wishes for them to grow up strong and centered and I accommodating to any form of old-school patriarchy: I didn't want them to ever believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn't wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.

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    ...Chúng tôi trồng những bụi dâu và rất nhiều loại thảo mộc khác. Rồi chúng tôi sẽ có gì từ đó? Tôi không biết, cũng giống như tôi chẳng biết điều gì đang chờ chúng tôi phía trước tại Nhà Trắng, những gì chờ đợi đất nước này hay chờ đợi những đứa trẻ đáng yêu đang ở quanh tôi. Khi đó, tất cả những gì chúng tôi có thể làm là đặt niềm tin vào những nỗ lực của mình, tin rằng với ánh mặt trời, mưa và thời gian, cái gì đó hay hay sẽ từ đất vươn lên.

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    It's hard to put into words what sometimes you pick up in the ether, the quiet, cruel nuances of not belonging- the subtle cues that tell you to not risk anything, to find your people and just stay put.

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    Still, it was impossible to be a black kid at a mostly white school and not feel the shadow of affirmative action. You could almost read the scrutiny in the gaze of certain students and even some professors, as if they wanted to say, I know why you’re here”. These moments could be demoralizing, even if I’m sure I was just imagining some of it. It planted a seed of doubt. Was I here merely as part of a social experiment?

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