Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
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.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
My dad worked at NASA his whole career; he's a research scientist.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
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.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
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.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
That's what 'Star Trek' was: We don't know how to make an ideal society, but we're going to portray that, and then we're going to work backward. I think that's why science fiction - despite the dystopian parts - comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
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.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
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.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
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 the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
You don't get the good without the bad, but you really do have to see it all in order to make progress.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
Margot Lee Shetterly
American writer
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