Michelle Obama tired of being portrayed as 'angry black woman' The Kantor book portrays a White House where tensions developed between Mrs Obama and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and former press secretary and presidential adviser Robert Gibbs. The book, titled "The Obamas," describes Mrs Obama as having gone through an evolution from struggle to fulfilment in her role at the White House, while labelling her an "unrecognised force" in pursuing the president's goals. Neither the president nor his wife agreed to be interviewed for the book. "I do care deeply about my husband," Mrs Obama said in the CBS appearance. I am one of his biggest allies. I am one of his biggest confidants. But she sought to put aside "this notion that I sit in meetings." "I guess it's just more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here," she said. That's been an image people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced, that I'm some kind of angry black woman. "There will always be people who don't like me," Mrs. Obama added, and said she could live with that. Mrs Obama said that she's "just trying to be me, and I just hope that over time, that people get to know me." Asked specifically about an assertion of dissension between herself and Mr Emanuel, now the mayor of Chicago, the first lady said she has "never had a cross word" with him. The same, she said, applies to Mr Gibbs, whom she described as "a good friend, and remains so." "I'm sure we could go day to day and find things people wished they didn't say to each other," Mrs Obama said. And that's why I don't read these books. ... It's a game, in so many ways, that doesn't fit. Who can write about what I feel? What third person can tell me what I feel? Mrs Obama said that when questions or conflicts arise involving her and the White House staff, her East Wing staff resolves the issue with her husband's staff in the West Wing. "If there's communication that needs to happen, it's between staffs," she said. I don't have conversations with my husband's staff.