Michel'le Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• I was appearing on the reality show R&B Divas and when I started to fall apart it was very public. But I am glad that it happened that way. It made me see myself. And it made me transparent.

  Michel'le

  Fall, Reality, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• Doing reality TV is hard. You get lost. You are shooting three months before anybody sees it. So you are past [the emotions]. Then when it airs and the public sees it, they react and it drags you back. It feels you have grown, but then you suddenly feel like you haven't moved at all.

  Michel'le

  Reality, Past, Air

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.

  Michel'le

  Mom, Important, Titles

  4 Copy quote

• It's one of many ways that Barack shows me and the girls how special we are. And that's the thing that touches me about him. I don't care what's on his plate. I don't care what he's struggling with. When he steps off that elevator into our residence he is Barack and dad. And there's just those little things that you do that remind you, that you know, I still got ya.

  Michel'le

  Girl, Dad, Struggle

  12 Copy quote

• One of the things that attracted me to Barack was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him—he is who he appears to be. I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way.

  Michel'le

  Honesty, Husband, Emotional

  4 Copy quote

• For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

  Michel'le

  Men, Mind, World

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.

  Michel'le

  Men, Order, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear, think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, - transform - this country in a fundamental way. This chance won't come around again.

  Michel'le

  Country, Real, Fighting

  8 Copy quote

• I know in the movie it looks like my grandmother is condoning it, but she really wasn't. But back in those days, men beat women. She was trying to tell me something without being judgmental, trying to help me understand that's what men do.

  Michel'le

  Grandmother, Men, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• There is still a lot of hard work that we as a country need to do. They can't look to any one individual, whether it's Barack or it's the next new hope that's going to appear to be that savior.

  Michel'le

  Country, Hard Work, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

  Michel'le

  Thinking, Together, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• I would go back in time and do differently it is that. I would go back and ask, 'Why?' But I never did. I got up, he got up, we went on about our day. We never discussed the situation [with Dre]. Just, never.

  Michel'le

  Situation, Go Back In Time, Back In Time

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.

  Michel'le

  Mean

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.

  Michel'le

  Country, Jobs, Law

  4 Copy quote

• Rap was forbidden with the people who were interviewing us and the shows that I was getting [booked on], and I had kind of crossed over. So Jerry [Heller, who managed N.W.A.] would tell me, 'Do not say you're a rapper, always say you're R&B.'

  Michel'le

  Rap, People, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• We had everything. We were young kids. We were driving cars our parents couldn't afford, living in big houses. For me to sit here and say, "Oh my God, I didn't enjoy any of it" - no, I did. Of course I did.

  Michel'le

  Kids, Car, Parent

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

• It felt like love to me. It embraced me. I accepted it and thought, "Well, this is how [Dre] loves." I got that from my mother and from my grandmother, who were abused.

  Michel'le

  Mother, Like Love, Accepted

  Source: www.elle.com

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 2

First

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin