Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

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Maya Soetoro-Ng

Profession : Educator

Birth : August 15, 1970

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

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.

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We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

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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.

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As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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