American - Educator | August 15, 1970 -
I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
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My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country.
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Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.
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This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.
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My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.
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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
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Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.
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I'm a teacher, so much of what I'm doing remains in the abstract. But I also support a lot of educational initiatives that support kids to really get out there and work hard in their communities. But I also think that we need poets in our country to inspire.
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My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.
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I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.
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I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.
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You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love.
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