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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
- Michelle Obama
#Feel
#Me
#Sometimes
#Try
#White
If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment - and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That's where respect comes from.
- Michelle Obama
#Commitment
#Important
#Respect
#Trust
I specifically did not read other First Ladies' books, because I didn't want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role - very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.
- Michelle Obama
#Find
#First
#Me
#Role
#Want
Not being afraid to be wrong - I had to learn how to do that.
- Michelle Obama
#Afraid
#Being
#How
#Learn
#Wrong
Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.
- Michelle Obama
#America
#Life
#My Life
#Society
#World
Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.
- Michelle Obama
#City
#Government
#Organization
#Youth
What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.
- Michelle Obama
#Children
#Go
#HIV
#Know
#School
People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.
- Michelle Obama
#Change
#People Change
#People
#See
#Way
I've come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.
- Michelle Obama
#Know
#Maturity
#Parents
#Way
#Will
I tried to be a serious student and not procrastinate, but I was still somebody that would be described as somebody who liked to have fun, too, and go to the occasional party - or two or three.
- Michelle Obama
#Fun
#Go
#Serious
#Student
#Three
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
- Michelle Obama
#Artist
#Beauty
#Poetry
#Special
#Try
I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.
- Michelle Obama
#Conference
#Dad
#Honey
#Remember
#School
I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans - because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.
- Michelle Obama
#Challenges
#Opportunity
#Service
#Wish
The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
- Michelle Obama
#Cross
#Desk
#Easy
#Never
#Questions
After an era of everything being super-sized, who would have thought that major companies would be racing to market smaller, lower-calorie versions of their snacks and beverages - from half-sized candy bars to little, mini soda cans? We see it everywhere we go.
- Michelle Obama
#Being
#Everything
#Go
#Racing
#See
Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.
- Michelle Obama
#Awesome
#Exactly
#Imagine
#Meryl
#Would
Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.
- Michelle Obama
#Education
#Go
#Lawyer
#Music
#Want
When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you're doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she's doing.
- Michelle Obama
#Country
#Doing
#Good
#Me
#People
Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.
- Michelle Obama
#Attack
#Matter
#Understand
#Us
#Whether
I'm asking myself, 'What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?' Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
- Michelle Obama
#Children
#Country
#Differences
#Myself
I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.
- Michelle Obama
#Admire
#Lady
#Law
#Lawyer
#Respect
If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.
- Michelle Obama
#Day
#Friend
#Me
#People
#Wonder
Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.
- Michelle Obama
#Been
#Community
#Honor
#Life
#My Life
One thing I just want to say to the military families - while you might not wear a uniform, I know - we all know, the nation knows - that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.
- Michelle Obama
#Grateful
#Sacrifice
#Service
#Uniform
Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.
- Michelle Obama
#Deserve
#Feet
#Home
#Real
#Words
When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don't just sit around thinking about it or talking about it - they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.
- Michelle Obama
#Country
#Men
#Thinking
#Uniform
#Women
We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren't always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.
- Michelle Obama
#Action
#Know
#Me
#Walls
#Words
We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We've got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.
- Michelle Obama
#Believe
#Great
#Money
#Parents
#Remember
As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.
- Michelle Obama
#Day
#Decision
#Life
#Time
#Vision
While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President... like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?
- Michelle Obama
#Chance
#Country
#Mean
#Mother
#Vision
Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.
- Michelle Obama
#Life
#Me
#Mom
#Night
#Simple
I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he's feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.
- Michelle Obama
#Family
#Feeling
#He
#Husband
#Time
Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.
- Michelle Obama
#Day
#Experience
#Say
#Us
#Watching
I want kids to know: Don't wait for somebody to come along and tell you you're special. Because that may never happen.
- Michelle Obama
#Know
#Never
#Special
#Wait
#Want
When you're not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it's important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.
- Michelle Obama
#Important
#Losing
#People
#Start
#White
A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.
- Michelle Obama
#Candidate
#Change
#Hide
#Light
#Way
I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.
- Michelle Obama
#Democracy
#Important
#Power
#Reality
There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?
- Michelle Obama
#Cute
#Good People
#Good
#Love
#Work
I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There's no legislative authority; you're not elected. And that's a wonderful gift of freedom.
- Michelle Obama
#Doing
#Entertainment
#Freedom
#Gift
#Her
I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I've gotten to know her, and I think she's made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.
- Michelle Obama
#Her
#Know
#Life
#She
#Woman
Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
- Michelle Obama
#Diversity
#Pride
#Remember
#Strength
Being president isn't anything like reality TV. It's not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it's about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.
- Michelle Obama
#Country
#Handle
#Reality
#Responsibility
There are folks who now know black families - like the Johnsons on 'Black-ish' or the folks on 'Modern Family.' They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.
- Michelle Obama
#Black
#Change
#Family
#Laugh
#World
I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.
- Michelle Obama
#Culture
#I Am
#Life
#Myself
#View
When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.
- Michelle Obama
#Job
#Need
#Seriously
#Start
#Will
I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.
- Michelle Obama
#Going
#President
#Run
#Will
My husband will tell you one of the most frequent questions he gets from world leaders is, 'How's your wife's garden?'
- Michelle Obama
#Husband
#Questions
#Wife
#Will
#World
I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
- Michelle Obama
#Chance
#Fight
#Life
#Service
#Work
What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.
- Michelle Obama
#Life
#Never
#Pressure
#Quit
#Way
I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.
- Michelle Obama
#Children
#Country
#Great
#Vision
#Will
I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
- Michelle Obama
#Chance
#Fight
#Life
#Service
#Work
What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that's what I want.
- Michelle Obama
#Children
#Life
#Pressure
#Quit
#Way
When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.
- Michelle Obama
#Black
#Day
#Men
#Morning
#Never Forget
My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn't sustain us.
- Michelle Obama
#Day
#Every Day
#Ice Cream
#Normal
#Us
I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn't think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I'd like to think comes from the years of attention we've put into this.
- Michelle Obama
#Attention
#Exercise
#Look
#Real
#View
I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
- Michelle Obama
#Doing
#Drown
#Great
#Me
#See
I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
- Michelle Obama
#Education
#Know
#Like
#Need
#Struggle
I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.
- Michelle Obama
#Cardio
#Good
#Love
#People
#Song
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
- Michelle Obama
#Doing
#Drown
#Great
#Me
#See
I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
- Michelle Obama
#New
#People
#Politics
#Tired
#Want
I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.
- Michelle Obama
#Fund-Raising
#Hate
When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
- Michelle Obama
#Care
#Day
#Easy
#Health
#The Right Thing
Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.
- Michelle Obama
#American
#Care
#More
#Others
#Success
I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
- Michelle Obama
#Data
#Desk
#Numbers
#Problems
#Will
Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.
- Michelle Obama
#Lunch
#Night
#Way
#Week
#Work
Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
- Michelle Obama
#Money
#Parents
#Time
#Tough
#Water
Ultimately this issue is on us. We're the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.
- Michelle Obama
#About
#Decisions
#Eat
#Us
#Who
We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids' plates.
- Michelle Obama
#Find
#Hard
#Information
#Look
#Time
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
- Michelle Obama
#Business
#Change
#I Am
#Love
#Way
See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
- Michelle Obama
#Care
#Education
#Family
#Health
#War
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.
- Michelle Obama
#City
#Father
#Home
#Me
#Mother
I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
- Michelle Obama
#Blessed
#Extraordinary
#He
#Wife
#Will
I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
- Michelle Obama
#Raised
#Social
#Speak
#Standing
#Wealth
We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.
- Michelle Obama
#Dinner
#Good
#Me
#Nothing
#Start
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
- Michelle Obama
#Choice
#Family
#Restaurant
#Together
As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
- Michelle Obama
#Best
#Know
#Mom
#Parents
#Responsibility
Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.
- Michelle Obama
#Choice
#Information
#Restaurant
#Step
My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.
- Michelle Obama
#Honesty
#Job
#Know
#Universe
#Will
That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education.
- Michelle Obama
#Education
#Hope
#Seriously
#Today
#Wish
Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.
- Michelle Obama
#Blessed
#Day
#Earth
#Live
#Me
You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still 'mom-in-chief.' My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
- Michelle Obama
#Day
#End Of The Day
#Heart
#See
#World
America is just downright mean.
- Michelle Obama
#America
#Downright
#Just
#Mean
For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.
- Michelle Obama
#Like
#Movies
#People
#Television
#Way
I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.
- Michelle Obama
#Going
#Hard
#He
#Love
#Trust
We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.
- Michelle Obama
#Know
#More
#Think
#Understand
#Women
Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.
- Michelle Obama
#America
#Education
#Opportunity
#Today
Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.
- Michelle Obama
#Children
#Good
#Kindness
#Media
#Support
When a father puts in long hours at work, he's praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she's sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.
- Michelle Obama
#Father
#Long
#Mother
#Selfish
#Work
The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.
- Michelle Obama
#Black And White
#Black
#Skin
#White
I've said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.
- Michelle Obama
#Life
#Living
#Time
#White
#Work
There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.
- Michelle Obama
#Focus
#Lady
#Me
#Questions
#World
Hillary doesn't play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime - yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.
- Michelle Obama
#Candidate
#Day
#Experience
#Ready
#Woman
My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
- Michelle Obama
#Family
#Heart
#Money
#Truth
#Wife
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
- Michelle Obama
#American
#Effort
#Genius
#Life
#Talent
We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.
- Michelle Obama
#Access
#Afford
#Need
#Power
#Women
What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'
- Michelle Obama
#Balance
#Independence
#Life
#Own
#Rules
For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.
- Michelle Obama
#Best
#Democracy
#Earth
#Free
#World
The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
- Michelle Obama
#Black
#Gas
#Know
#Man
#Shot
It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.
- Michelle Obama
#Anything
#Clear
#Me
#Through
#World
Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.
- Michelle Obama
#America
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#School
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