"African American children are significantly more likely to……" — Michelle Obama
"African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning."
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Michelle Obama
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209 Quotes by Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama has 209 quotes on this site.
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I tell my kids, 'I am thinking about you every other minute of my day.'
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Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.
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There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.
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Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our…
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We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.
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When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind…
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If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a…
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We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have…
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Barack and I have been in the public eye for many years now, and we've developed a thick skin along…
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Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions…
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Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house…
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Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it - and he wants everyone in this country to have that…
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
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I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell…
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
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