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Mae Jemison recounts her life story, describing her struggle to overcome the doubts of those around her and become an astronaut--the first woman of color in space.
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Here are moments when my curiousity seemed squarely at odds with my supposed dignity. So this book is dedicated to the friends in my life who with humor, always embodied the beautiful balance of dignified curiousity – Tiger, Pink, Grey, Pili, Mac, Lil' Mama, and Sneeze,
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What do you want to be when you grow up?
I remember the arguments and conversations I had with Kenyans about African Americans. To make a long story short, many Kenyas thought the black folks in Tarzan movies were African Americans playing African Americans. So Tarzan movies managed to misrepresent black folk on both sides of the Atlantic in one fell swoop. (“A Southerly Wind Blows . . . Africa,” p.159, Scholastic Press, 2001)
In fact, I felt so calm that I realized I would feel comfortable anywhere in the universe – because I belonged to it and was a part of it, as much as any star, planet, asteroid, comet or nebula. Didn't my body and my mind contain the same atoms and energy as do the stars? (“Harnessing Explosive Winds,” p. 193, Scholastic Press, 2001)
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Ah, but there stirs another leaf . . . and I know for the rest of my life that I will continue to new places the wind goes.
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