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Maya Soetoro-Ng
American
Educator
Born:
Aug 15
,
1970
Country
Mother
People
Think
World
You
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We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Love
Communication
Care
Responsibility
Preparation
Our
Adulthood
Empathy
Children
Social
Teach
Social Responsibility
Need
My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Life
Love
Great
Woman
Natural
Frustration
World
Mother
Moon
Tremendous
Teenager
Would
Had
Look
She
Courageous
Because
Go
Source
Wake
Up
Middle
Wanted
Loved
Us
Natural World
Night
Sleep
The facts are simply that my brother was born in the United States at the Kapiolani Hospital for Women and Children in 1961. His birth certificate has been authenticated by a number of sources.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Women
Birth
Birth Certificate
States
Has-Been
Brother
Born
Hospital
Facts
Simply
Been
His
Sources
Women And Children
Children
Certificate
United
United States
Number
My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Education
Great
Women
Mother
Great Deal
Build
Young
Thoughtful
Would
About
Idea
Name
She
Deal
Passionate
Very
Being
Young Women
Used
Being Used
Bridges
Her
Enjoyed
Cared
I'm half white, half Asian. I think of myself as hybrid. People usually think I'm Latina when they meet me. That's what made me learn Spanish.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Myself
Me
People
Made
Half
White
Think
Meet
Latina
Hybrid
Learn
Spanish
Asian
We can do much to help our communities loosen their boundaries and begin to welcome a multitude of ways of being to make sure that individuals of mixed race, religion, or ethnicities don't feel the need to choose one or the other but see their layers as a gift, something that adds beauty.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Religion
Welcome
Gift
Beauty
Other
Our
Adds
Ways
See
Something
Layers
Individuals
Feel
Boundaries
Make
Sure
Loosen
Mixed
Begin
Being
Race
Much
Communities
Choose
Help
Multitude
Need
I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Bit
Lot
Up
Very
American
Ended
Little
Little Bit
Things
I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Country
White
White House
Think
House
Always
Reflected
Textures
Flavors
I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Wisdom
Better
Thought
Think
Enormous
Would
Would-Be
Kinds
About
Better Off
True
Look
Off
Handle
Order
Information
Forward
Amount
Need
We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Matter
Isolation
Live
Others
Our
Kids
Impact
Ripples
Only
Effect
Afford
Far
Far Away
Teach
Who
Away
Things
Need
I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Me
People
World
Live
Think
Our
Willing
See
About
Global
Narrowly
Lot
Interconnectedness
Really
Who
It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Mother
Think
Back
Would
Anew
About
Given
She
Conjure
Her
Needed
I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
You
Single
Think
Way
Seemingly
Facets
Varied
Because
Single Person
Selves
Contradictory
Person
Many
We all have a limited amount of good judgment.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Good
Judgment
Good Judgment
Limited
Amount
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
People
Mother
Opportunities
Path
Become
Young
Would
Given
Like
Liked
She
Learn
Very
Being
Young People
Themselves
Much
Explore
Grow
Associated
My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Family
People
Muslim
Knew
Most
Were
Whole
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.
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Work
Love
Faith
You
Work Hard
Believe
Enough
Someone
Something
Come
Optimism
Very
Order
To Love
Really
Successful
Certain
Hard
Need
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