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Elayne Arrington Quotes

born 1940 United States

Elayne Arrington (born c. 1940) is an American mathematician and engineer. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a bachelor's degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Random Elayne Arrington quote

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Girls always come up here, but they never finish, and you won’t finish either.” Then he glanced at her hands and added: “Besides, you’re never going to be able to draw with those fingernails.”

I could do a split, but another African American girl could do a flip,” she remembers. “There could only be one African American cheerleader, and I couldn’t do a flip, so that was that.

Someone actually got what went on and how I felt

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elayne Arrington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.