In a wide-ranging interview, Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama discuss the former first lady’s new book, Becoming, and her life before and after the White House.
ON GROWING UP
Oprah Winfrey: The picture you paint so beautifully in Becoming is that the four of you-you, [your brother] Craig, and your parents— each was a corner of a square. Your family was the square.
Michelle Obama: Yes, absolutely. We lived a humble life, but it was a full life. We didn’t require much, you know? If you did well, you did well because you wanted to. A reward was maybe pizza night or some ice cream. But the neighborhood was predominantly white when we moved in, and by the time I went to high school, it was predominantly African American. And you started to feel the effects in the community and the school. This notion that kids don’t know when they’re not being invested in—I’m here to tell you that as a first grader, I felt it.
OW: You say your parents invested in you. They didn’t own their own home. They didn’t vacation—
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