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" As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections. "
Parents
Some
Children
" Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard. "
Smart
Good
Kid
" Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism. "
Me
Feel
Everyone
" Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will. "
Each
Name
Will
" Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring. "
Lead By Example
Caring
Government
" Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own. "
Better
Government
Help
" 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. "
World
Believe
Learn
" I don't think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country. "
White
House
Always
" I ended up very American and very Indonesian and a little bit of a lot of things. "
Lot
Things
Little
" 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. "
People
Mother
Opportunities
" 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. "
Think
Work Hard
Support
" 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. "
White
People
Myself
" 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. "
People
Think
See
" 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. "
Thought
Information
Wisdom
" 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. "
World
History
Fashion
" 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. "
Think
You
Because
" 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. "
Back
Her
About
" I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching. "
Storytelling
Always
Teaching
" Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind. "
Mom
Riches
She
" My brother loves this country deeply. He has laid down roots, and he has always been incredibly patriotic and committed to this country. "
Down
Brother
Country
" My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious. "
Community
Friday
I Am
" My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng. "
I Can
Future
Just
" 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. "
Love
Woman
Life
" 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. "
Women
Education
Great
" My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim. "
Most
Knew
Were
" One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told. "
World
Students
Story
" Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist. "
Say
Would
Am
" Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders. "
Elders
Down
Lessons
" 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. "
Born
Women
Facts
" The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn't realize how much I'd become her. I pass a mirror, and am surprised by how much I look like her. "
Look
You
Rich
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