How Michelle Obama's Parents Taught Her to Be Confident

You see your excellence in the eyes of your parents. We have parents that really thought we were smart and funny and interesting, and they reflected that back to us. They wanted to hear what we thought. So we grew up thinking, we're so funny, we're so smart, we're so interesting. You know, I know you want to hear what I have to say. I know I'm five, but let me tell you my opinion about these things, right? So it starts there, and especially when your poor black kids on the south side of Chicago. I think our parents knew that what was coming for us was the absolute different message, that at every turn, what was awaiting us, regardless of who we were, there were going to be teachers and people who would be constantly lowering our bars for us anyway. So I think they fueled us with a level of can do it, must do itness that would give us a kind of armor as we went out and sort of started getting dinged in the world. In the world. Yeah, yeah.