I am thinking about success, ambition and blackness and how breaking through while black is tempered by so much burden. Many people of color, like me, remember the moment that first began to shape their ambition. Many people of color in this country probably can relate to the onset of outsized ambition at too young an age, an ambition fueled by the sense, often confirmed by ignorance, of being a second-class citizen and needing to claw your way toward equal consideration and some semblance of respect.
