Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
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… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Katherine gave in to the wonder of the moment, imagining herself in the astronauts' place. What emotions welled up from the depths… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It had always been Katherine Goble's great talent to be in the right place at the right time.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Early in her career at Langley, Dorthy Lee was interviewed for the Daily Press, in all probability by Virginia Biggins, the female reporter assigned… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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