You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.
Mae JemisonNever limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae JemisonNever be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
Mae JemisonWe look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae JemisonPeople always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.
Mae Jemison