“Even as a professional in an integrated world, I had been the only black woman in enough drawing rooms and boardrooms to have an inkling of the chutzpah it took for an African American woman in a segregated southern workplace to tell her bosses she was sure her calculations would put a man on the Moon.”
"Men don’t pay attention to small things."
- Katherine Johnson
Awareness
"You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you."
- Katherine Johnson
Belief
"There’s nothing to it; I was just doing my job."
- Katherine Johnson
Integrity
"I found that as long as I conducted myself with professionalism and proved my worth through my work, people would eventually ignore the barriers of race and gender."
- Katherine Johnson
Integrity
"You can change people’s perceptions by breaking barriers and proving them wrong with your accomplishments."
- Katherine Johnson
Courage
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage