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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.

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

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Margot Lee Shetterly

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Margot Lee Shetterly

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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

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

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.

Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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