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Michelle Obama had a warning on Friday night: life is full of challenges, and people will try to convince you to quit on your goals.

“There were times I was called an ape in heels,” Obama told a sell-out crowd at the Bell Centre. “There were people throughout my life who told me I should be quiet or not dream too big. If someone is really trying to tear you down, they’ll do it, and it doesn’t have anything to do with you.”

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The first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 was candid, humorous and sentimental with the crowd on Friday as part of the tour for her best-selling memoir, Becoming.

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The evening was moderated by Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to Barack Obama and Michelle’s former boss in Chicago. Jarrett read several questions sent in by Twitter and had some of her own questions as well.