Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes

American - Writer | 1969 -

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.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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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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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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LeadershipMotherParentsCollege

History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.

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HistoryCoffeeUpCupSoonHappened

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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ExperiencePeopleBlackThinkView

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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DayPeopleStoryInspireYouNeed

I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.

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ThinkHiddenFirstAfrican-American

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.

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TechnologySciencePeopleYouLook

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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DailyGreatMenPeopleDramaWant

My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.

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ResearchCareerNASAWholeHeHis

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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WomenBlackThoughtEngineersNormal

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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