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Maya Soetoro-Ng

Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (/ˈmaɪ.ə suːˈtɔːroʊ ˈɪŋ/;) 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.

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Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

Already, Children, Imbedded, Personality, World

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

Benevolent, Earth, Impact, World

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.

Believe, Learn, Needs, Open, Order

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

Family, Muslim, People, Whole, Whole Family

Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring.

Caring, Government, Hands, Inspiring, Particularly

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I would like to be remembered by them in much the way I remember my mom: as loving and kind.

Children, Loving, Mom, Parent, Remembered

You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

Cases, Function, Giving, Government, People, Role

And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

Children, Gentle, Impact, Inspire, Things

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

Country, Government, Help, Order

Faith and optimism come from love.

Come, Faith, Love, Optimism

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. I'm an advocate of an approach that endeavors to foster empathy and which tries to find a common humanity across the divide.

Common Humanity, Different, Fashion, Taught, Thinking, Tries

That's a powerful way to love, when you accept your children, however they emerge, with all their peculiarities.

Accept, Children, Emerge, Powerful, Way

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.

Believe, Enough, Hard, Hard Work, Successful

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

Meanness, Rare, Rare Occasion, See, Thing, Upset