"Love is the ultimate thing, I want that to be the connection between everything I do: science, art, or otherwise."

"I paint mostly black people because I am black...I think it’s a cultural crisis in America, how people see themselves…"

"It’s the strangeness of the universe that has always been my favorite part of physics."

"Astronomers are masters of light; light we can see and most of which we can’t see."

"Pursue your love. Stay hopeful. You’re needed. (Responding to the question "If there was a word you could give to oth…"

"I grew up in an environment where love for my people and for our culture was expressed all around me. I was raised to…"

"Everyone’s captivated by astronomy, by the stars, what’s out there in the universe...And so I made a conscious choice…"

"One strong motivation [for painting portraits] has been wanting to portray Black people in all the beauty that I see …"

"It’s frustrating for me, when people just talk about things at a superficial level and then try to solve the problem …"

"We can never make assumptions about the entire universe based on what’s happening in our own backyard...we don’t want…"