In this interview, Harrison B. Prosper, Kirby W. Kemper Endowed Professor of Physics at Florida State University, discusses his life and career. Prosper discusses: Kirby W. Kemper; his family's national origins in Dominica and his upbringing in Bradford, England, where his family was part of an upwardly mobile Caribbean expatriate community; challenges and confusion surrounding his national and racial identity during his childhood; developing interests and talents in science as a result of the moon landing in 1969; undergraduate education at the University of Manchester, where he studied physics and astronomy; staying at Manchester to complete a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics; graduate research at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY); being part of the group that discovered the gluon; postgraduate work teaching science and working in telecommunications before he took a position in a physics laboratory in Grenoble, France to work on neutron-antineutron oscillations and ultra-cooled neutrons; research visits to CERN; moving toward Bayesian methods of data analysis; postdoctoral research at Virginia Tech; Fermilab; racial issues he had to navigate in the United States in light of being perceived by appearance to be an African American; involvement in the DZero experiment which led to the discovery of the top quark; his tenure at Florida State; why his research agenda morphed into instrument building which was conducive to conducting laboratory work in an academic setting; advisory work for High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP); his enjoyment teaching physics to undergraduates and serving as a mentor to graduate students; his current interests in finding new peaks beyond the Higgs boson; the importance of building higher energy colliders. At the end of the interview, Prosper emphasizes that physicists across diverse disciplines must learn to collaborate in order to continue to push forward fundamental advancements, and this will be achieved only if the field is increasingly made accessible to young people across the planet.