Michelle Obama Quotes

We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.

I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.

I don't want to travel around this world and have these kids treat me like I'm someone they're not, because I'm not doing anything that they can't do.

If you happen to be in an environment where people are not accepting of who you are, you just need to know that's not always the way it will be.

This country gave us hope. This country allowed for us to develop our own identity and to create our own home. And we should not look down on the next person that is trying to do that.

If you're not represented, then sometimes you might not feel hopeful and don't feel like you can do something that other people are doing when you're just as worthy as they are.

I don't want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.

I think Pride, it means ultimately, finally, being able to live with freedom in some ways. Or, at least, that's what we're striving for.

We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - people are people.

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.