Quotes by Margot Lee Shetterly - Page 1

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.
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Mathematician
Scientist
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I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.
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Ordinary
Ordinary People
People Keep Want
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Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.
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Imagination
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Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.
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Hampton
Mine
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My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.
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Nasa
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The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
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Russians
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I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.
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Inevitable
Scientists
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History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
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Coffee
Seconds
Cup
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There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.
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Figures
Inspire
Hidden
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I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.
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African American
Figures
Hidden
Trilogy
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You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.
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Inspire
Enlighten
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My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.
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Retired
Internationally
Joined
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The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.
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Figures
Hungry
Transcendent
Hidden
Proves
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I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.
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Figures
Hidden
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I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
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Aviation
Significant
Virginia
Contributions
Hampton
Surprised
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It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people, not perfect.
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Not Perfect
Rare
Black People Woman
Mathematicians
Mothers
Protagonist
Three-Dimensional
Wives
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As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.
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Home Town
Launching
Mere
Pad
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We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.
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Great Men
Lessons
Actions
Daily Basis
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A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.
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Minorities
Racism
Segregation
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My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.
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Dad
Black
Community
Engineers
Johnson
Mary
Nasa
Within
Closely
Part
Group
Jackson
Larger
Well
Point
Scientists
Worked
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As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.
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Black
Desirable
White
American Experience
View
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Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
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Bones
Careers
Engineering
Sibling
Woods
David
Buddies
Carved
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You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
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Change
History
Good Moments
Happened
Moments
History Good Look
Change Good Look
Understand
Change History Good
Did
How
Look
Forward
Move
Move Forward
Takes
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A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
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Capture
Work Black People
Variable
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During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.
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African American
Stable
World War Ii
War World People
Boom
Hampton
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Roads
Thousands Of People
World War
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Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.
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Alumni
Electrical
Engineers
Experts
Neighbour
Physics
Sat
Associations
Board
Hampton
Held
Mathematicians
Positions
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I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.
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Archives
Influential
Journal
Norfolk
Forties
Exists
Fifties
Guide
Newspaper
Resource
Sixties
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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
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Acquire
Binary
Deeds
Exceptional
Passive
Renowned
Scarcity
Condition
Imposed
Long History
Mythic
Recipients
Status
Superheroes
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I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal.
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Backgrounds
Engineers
Mathematician
Scientists
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Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
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Airplane
Stable
Taking Advantage
World War I
Airport
Tremendous
War Work Time
Fundamental
Plane
Safer
Tremendous Amount
World War
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Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women were involved in the Second World War, the Cold War, the civil rights movement.
Margot Lee Shetterly /
War
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Cold
Cold War
College
Integrated
Involved
Johnson
Mary
Movement
Needed
Qualifications
Rights
Second World War
University
Virginia
West
West Virginia
War Women World
Actually
Allowed
Attend
Civil
Public
Courts
Jackson
Petition
Rights Movement
Second
World War
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That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite the dystopian parts - comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.
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Better Place
Despite
Dystopian
Ideals
Science Fiction
Backward
Star
Ideal
Parts
Portray
Star Trek
Super
Trek
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How do we fill the need for technology workers, people who have computer skills and math and science skills? How do we get a more diverse science workforce? These are all issues - I would look at these documents that were from the '50s and '60s and '70s, and you'd swear they were written two weeks ago because the issues are the same.
Margot Lee Shetterly /
Diverse
Documents
Math
Math And Science
Swear
Two Weeks
Workers
Fill
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