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Maya Soetoro-Ng

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Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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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
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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. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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#Us
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Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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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
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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
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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
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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. - 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. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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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. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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#People
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My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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#People
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We all have a limited amount of good judgment. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders. - Maya Soetoro-Ng
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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
#Communication
#Love
#Responsibility
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