- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't get the good without the bad, but you really do have to see it all in order to make progress.
- Inspire
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.
- Carved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Aviation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
History happens as soon as I pick up my coffee cup - it happened 30 seconds ago. It's history.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020