Best quotes by Ilhan Omar on Family

Checkout quotes by Ilhan Omar on Family

• ‟ I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.

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• ‟ I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn't have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.

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• ‟ We didn't really grow up in a gendered environment. We didn't have a hierarchy. My family is fearless. They truly believe that they have something to contribute to society and that it is an obligation as humans. I try to embed in my children that they have something to contribute. And that you give because you have to, not to be appreciated.

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• ‟ Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi; we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. Like all families, we have had our ups and downs, but we are proud to have come through it together.

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• ‟ My family called me the 'why kid' growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

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• ‟ I invited President Trump twice now to come meet my family and my community because he seems to have a lot of opinions about the kind of people we are.

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