Becoming

 

Becoming by Michelle Obama
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Not only is this a beautifully written memoir, including meaningful and interesting details about what it is like the be the First Lady, but it is an inspiring and motivating narrative of finding a higher purpose in life and striving to make a difference where you can.

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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.

the unknown wasn't going to kill me

We owed something to each one of these people.  we were asking for an investment of their faith, and now we had to deliver on what they'd brought us, carrying that enthusiasm through twenty months and fifty states and right into the White House.  I hadn't believed it was possible, but maybe now I did.  This was the call-and-response of democracy, I realized, a contract forged person by person.  You show up for us, and we'll show up fro you.