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You will fail, you should fail. But if you stick with it, and let your peculiarities become assets, you will succeed.” Commencement address at Bates College.

— Evelynn M. Hammonds

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America that did not believe in negro talent despite the scientific evidence that he and other African Americans had produced.

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While challenges are being made to the exclusion of people of color in U.S. science and technology, progress toward eliminating the structural exclusion has been a long and difficult slog

You can't pay attention to those negative voices. This doesn't come naturally for a lot of people, so you have to fight through the perceptions that others have of you and not use those things as excuses to not succeed in what you are doing.

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