Black community Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

“All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's…

— Malcolm X

“As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people…

— Mae Jemison

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by…

— Theodore Melfi

Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.

— Theodore Melfi

“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“The black female mathematicians who walked into Langley in 1943 would find themselves at the intersection of these great transformations, their sharp minds and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men…

— Sun Yung Shin

I wanted to set the standard, do the best job possible so that other people would be comfortable with African-Americans flying in space and…

— Guion Bluford

The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries will take…

— Margaret Halsey

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson