Storytelling Quotes by Margot Lee Shetterly

“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“a lifetime of stories”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Insatiably curious about the world.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready to go.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly