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...
Puke green being the official color of the 1970s—
Twenty minutes later, I caught sight of Barack across the room, in the grips of what looked to be an endless conversation with the woman, who was doing a large portion of the talking. He shot me a loo...
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And i...
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.
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me abo...
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.
I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
When voters got to see me as a person, they understood that the caricatures were untrue. I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
When Barack was first elected, various commentators had naively declared that our country was entering a postracial era, in which skin color would no longer matter. Here was proof of how wrong they’d...
And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat peo...
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abr...
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay t...
I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
Even if we didn't know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed.
As Americans obsessed over the threat of terrorism, many were overlooking the racism and tribalism that were tearing our nation apart.
The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it's how you recover from those failures - is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out...