Black Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses

Not only did I always know I was black, I always knew we were and are beautiful, culturally rich, and creators of everything from…

— Angela Rye

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the…

— Whitfield Diffie

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

— Jerry Buss

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a…

— Bitsie Tulloch

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was…

— Henry Louis Gates

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two…

— Emily Calandrelli

I was a weird Black girl. I still am. But growing up, if you get told your interests are weird or not Black enough,…

— Ayo Edebiri

I never really wanted to be, I don't want to say, an average engineer. I always wanted to do something different, something more exciting.

— Grant Imahara

I was the black kid in school who'd skate and wrestle, who was really into outer space and botany and kung fu and hip-hop.…

— Jermaine Fowler

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao