Janelle Monáe

Karl Zielinski: "Let me ask you, if you were a white man would you wish to be an engineer?"
Mary Jackson: "I wouldn't have to, I'd already be one."

"Three Negro women are chasing a white police officer down a highway in 1961. That is a God-ordained miracle."

Katherine Johnson: "How could you possibly be ogling these white men?"
Mary Jackson: "It's equal rights, I have the right to see fine in every color."

Karl Zielinski: "You should be an engineer."
Mary Jackson: "I'm a negro woman, I'm not going to entertain the impossible."
Karl Zielinski: "I'm standing beneath a spaceship, we are living the impossible!"

"We go from being our father's daughters to our husbands wives to our baby's mothers."

Vivian Michael: "NASA doesn't commission females for the engineer program."
Mary Jackson: "Every time we have a chance to get ahead they move the finish line. Every time."
Vivian Michael: "You all should be thankful you have jobs at all."

[Fixing their broke down car]
Mary Jackson: "Katherine, we're all going to end up unemployed riding around in this pile of junk."
Dorothy Vaughan: "You're welcome to walk the sixteen miles."
Katherine Johnson: "Or sit in the back of the bus."

Mary Jackson: "That Colonel Jim is a tall glass of water. He's coming over."
Katherine Johnson: "Now why would he be doing that?"
Dorothy Vaughan: "Because Mary's waving at him."
Katherine Johnson: "No!"