Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander

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    • Scot 2022-09-16 00:06:42

      Short thoughts

      I know this documentary and the book Becoming because of the blog "Small Noise".

      The documentary is more of a collection of publicity speech clips, telling about Michelle’s personal growth experience, birth family, husband, father, children, and even fashion (though I feel that this part is very...

    • Doris 2022-10-03 16:42:42

      The old routine of the US president

      After the president of the United States retires, the basic routine is to make speeches, go around, publish books and other methods to absorb money, and then constantly brush up on the sense of existence, then slowly pass away, and then slowly settle, Clinton, Jr. Bush and Obama are like this.

      In...

    Becoming quotes

    • Michelle Obama: Your story with highs and lows, what seems so ordinary and seems like nothing to you, is your power.

    • Michelle Obama: Get back on what track? It's a whole new track. It's not goin' back. You know it's all different, and it's different forever. So it's not getting back on track but its creating my next track... I'm doing what you're doing. I'm figuring out, "What do I want to do? What do I care about?" And it takes time to process your life and figure out what it all means. So little of who I am happened in those eight years. So much more of who I was happened before."

      [regarding a student's question about having her career/life interrupted by her husband becoming president]