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

Pursue your love. Stay hopeful. You’re needed. (Responding to the question "If there was a word you could give to other young people of color who want to be scientists, what would you tell them?")

I grew up in an environment where love for my people and for our culture was expressed all around me. I was raised to identify with Black people around the globe.

We can never make assumptions about the entire universe based on what’s happening in our own backyard...we don’t want to have a theory of star formation just for the Milky Way — we want a universal theory.