Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes

United States, Teacher
August 15, 1970

Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (/ˈmaɪ.ə suːˈtɔːroʊ ˈɪŋ/; born August 15, 1970) is the maternal half-sister of the 44th United States President Barack Obama. Formerly a high school history teacher, she is currently a Faculty Specialist and Director of Community Outreach and Global Learning at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution, which is based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

Maya Soetoro-Ng
- Mind
- She
- Mom
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
- True
- Wisdom

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
- Country
- Help
My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.

Maya Soetoro-Ng
- People
- Family
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
- Pride
I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

Maya Soetoro-Ng
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.

Maya Soetoro-Ng
- Work
- Country
- Kids
Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

Maya Soetoro-Ng
- Caring
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
- Children
- Brother
Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

Maya Soetoro-Ng
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
- Help